Retirement frauds and Carlos Lupi’s departure from Social Security had more engagement than the labor agenda promoted by Lula on May 1st
A survey indicates that the repercussion involving the (National Institute of Social Security) has repercussions on social networks more than the debate on the end of the 6 x 1 scale, (PT) on Wednesday (30.br.2025) in national network pronouncement on May 1, on Labor Day.
Revealed by a fraud of improper discounts with deviations of up to R $ 6.5 billion retirements returned to the center of discussions after the then pension holder, Carlos Lupi ,. The statement gained even more repercussion by coinciding with the.
According to the Bites survey commissioned by the newspaper The globeon May 1st, a commemorative date of the Labor Day, it was the only day when the 2 themes had similar engagement on social networks.
The day before, during the statement, Lula addressed the 2 themes. He said that his government dismantled a criminal scheme of improper charges against retirees and pensioners. And also the debate on the reduction of working hours. The end of the 6 x 1 scale
The data show that the volume of references to irregular retirement discounts – on May 2 – was 6 times higher than the mentions to the proposal to reduce the workday.
According to Bites, in the last 2 weeks, 2.49 million mentions of the INSS, retirement fraud and change in command of the Ministry of Welfare have been registered. Subjects related to Labor Day and the end of the 6 x 1 scale reached only 378,000 citations.
The difference is also reflected in engagement: the crisis involving irregular discounts resulted in more than 22.6 million interactions, including likes, comments and shares, while the labor agenda totaled 6.62 million.
“Even with May 1st being a historic event of the trade union centrals and that this year came with a new demand, by the end of the 6 × 1 scale, there was a very low repercussion on social networks. This happened, especially, in view of the INSS fraud, since all the repercussion of the scandal was very pulled and online guided by the opposition protagonism,”, Said Bites Deputy Director André Eleg.
