The president (PT) again criticized social media algorithms this Friday (16) and said that influencers who “talk nonsense” can accumulate up to 20 million followers.
He stated that teachers do not reach these same numbers and also cited the level of followers of the former president (PL).
“Now there’s a profession called influencer. Guy who works on the internet and has 3 million followers. I don’t know anyone who teaches something serious who has 4 million. But, if the guy is talking nonsense, he could even have 20 million. Bolsonaro had 30 million”, said the PT member at an event at Casa da Moeda, in Rio de Janeiro.
Bolsonaro, after being sentenced to 27 years and 3 months in prison for the attempted coup d’état, has been banned from using social media since July by order of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court).
On Instagram, the network where he is most popular, the former president has 27 million followers, while Lula has 14 million.
The PT member said this Friday that “the lie will win over the truth” in this year’s presidential elections if the population does not pay attention to fake news on social media and reinforced his concern about the advancement of .
“You women, be careful with this artificial intelligence. They are capable of taking a photo of you, sitting the way you are here, and putting you naked [em edição] on cell phone. That’s what artificial intelligence is,” said Lula.
“So get ready, because the rot isn’t even beginning in artificial intelligence,” he added.
Despite the president’s criticism of influencers, the government has resorted to them and viral videos in a new communication strategy for this year’s elections, focused on social media.
that at least 20 influencers had been hired to participate in campaigns since August.
Lula visited the Casa da Moeda, in Rio, where a ceremony to launch medals commemorating the 90th anniversary of the . The floor was created by law in 1936, under the government.
The president said that the event was not a celebration of the value of the minimum wage, but of its creation.
“When we tried to say that we were going to increase the minimum wage, everyone said: ‘it’s going to break the economy, it’s going to break companies’. There are guys who tip R$1,000 for whiskey and don’t want to pay a disgraceful minimum wage for poor people. And this guy thinks he’s going to break the country”, criticized Lula.
A decree signed by the president in December set the starting date of January 1, 2026. The new value had an adjustment of 6.79% in relation to 2025 (R$ 1,518).
Lula said that the current level is still “very low”, but defended the increase in value above the .
Ministers Luiz Marinho (Labor and Employment) and Esther Dweck (Management and Innovation), present at the event, also came out in defense of the policy resumed by the PT administration.
The president spoke in an auditorium whose audience was largely made up of employees from the Casa da Moeda, the state-owned company responsible for manufacturing real banknotes and coins.
The event was full of hugs and shouts of support for Lula, who is expected to run for re-election this year.
‘I work out two hours a day’
When speaking on stage, a Mint worker said she was happy to meet the president and called him a “bearded old man”.
After a quick conversation with Lula, she returned to the microphone and referred to him as “the sexiest bearded man in Brazil”. In his speech, the PT member commented on the episode and detailed his daily exercise routine.
“That companion [trabalhadora da Casa da Moeda] He called me an old man. I make a doomed effort to get up at 5:30 in the morning every day, I work out two hours a day to look like this young man here, and you call me old. Honestly, I’m going to stop making sacrifices, I’m going to be really fat”, he said.
Recently, the first lady da Silva showing Lula in swim trunks and a cap on the coast of Rio de Janeiro. For experts heard by the Sheetthe PT member demonstrated.
This Friday afternoon, still in Rio, Lula has an agenda with the presidents of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the European Council, António Costa. They should discuss the next steps of the agreement between Mercosur and the European Union, according to the Brazilian government.
of Mercosur member countries that will not participate in the signing of the agreement between the two blocs, next Saturday (17).
