🤳 Different feeds, different countries
How Brazilians of varying political views consume information. Why a cleaning products scare became a political battleground. Police violence at Brazil’s most prestigious university.
In this issue:
The differences in how Brazilians of varying political views consume information.
How a cleaning products scare became a political battleground.
Police violence at Brazil’s most prestigious university.
🔮 What’s ahead this week
On Monday, President Lula hosts Michelle Bachelet in BrasÃlia. Brazil is backing her candidacy for UN secretary general. A former two-time president of Chile, Bachelet headed UN Women from 2010 to 2013 and served as the UN’s high commissioner for human rights from 2018 to 2022.
On Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Nunes Marques takes office as Brazil’s chief electoral justice. He will oversee the Superior Electoral Court, a seven-member body that oversees the elections and adjudicates electoral disputes.
The capital will be left empty due to Brazil Week 2026 in New York, as Brazilian politicians flock to Manhattan for events bankrolled by private companies. Past sponsors include the fraud-tainted Banco Master, and the gatherings often cover politicians’ expenses, far from the Brazilian public eye.
Fractured information habits are calcifying Brazil
In the discussion around why President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s approval ratings have stayed stubbornly middling — despite positive macroeconomic numbers — the left typically focuses on one side of the equation. The government’s communication strategy is failing to showcase the results this administration has produced. Its moves are often tone-deaf. Cabinet ministers are not working together as a team.
That’s all true. But it’s only a part of the problem.
