São Paulo/London | The mass digital mobilisation that helped re-elect Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is inspiring left-wing activists in other countries to try similar methods on a social media battleground long dominated by the radical right.
Lula’s unexpected victory last month was credited in part to an allied lawmaker who ran a WhatsApp channel that grew from 50,000 followers before the first round of the presidential election to almost 11 million at the time of the run-off three weeks later.
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