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Lula's army: How WhatsApp helped flip Brazil's election
Lula wasn't supposed to win.
Just three weeks before Brazil's presidential runoff, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was trailing Flavio Bolsonaro by 2.2 million votes and staring down defeat. Then something extraordinary happened. Lula became the first candidate in Brazil's democratic history to lose the first round of a presidential election and still win the presidency.
How did he pull it off? And what does the comeback tell us about the future of populism, social media and democracy?
Brazilian-born Associate Professor Deborah Barros Leal Farias joins Laura Tingle and Latika Bourke to explain how…
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