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  • 2020-11-30 (xsd:date)
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  • Constantino relied on widely circulated claims that several news outlets have already been debunked (here (en)
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  • On November 23, more than two weeks after news networks declared Democrat Joe Biden victor in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the U.S. government’s General Services Administration acknowledged Biden as the presumptive winner and approved the start of a transition. Despite a profusion of protests and unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud, President Donald Trump himself accepted the transition call and said he would leave office if the Electoral College formally accepts the results. The following day, Rodrigo Constantino, a conservative Brazilian commentator who lives in the U.S. and has a large social media following, nonetheless continued to dispute the election results on Opiniao no Ar (Opinion on Air), a program broadcast by Rede TV news network. During the broadcast, which had nearly 148,000 views on YouTube alone, Constantino made several false or unsubstantiated claims regarding voting machines, voter fraud and the involvement of Big Tech in swaying voters. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is a Trump ally and one of the few world leaders who have not congratulated Biden. Bolsonaro’s sons have also spread disinformation about the U.S. election. Constantino is a critic of the political left in Brazil and a supporter of Bolsonaro, who has praised him publicly. Polygraph.info examined three of Constantino’s assertions, all of which were also made by Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who is leading the Trump campaign’s legal efforts to challenge the election results. NEW YORK – Voters arrive to cast their early ballot for the 2020 Presidential election at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City on October 30, 2020. Statement: There is a lot of debate about Dominion (en)
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