The is preparing a strategy to question in the (Superior Electoral Court) content that it considers to be disinformation against the president and the party during the electoral campaign, but there are at least two types of obstacles on this path.
One of them is the development of and . The other is the change of .
In the 2022 election, the party presented more than 300.
The person presiding over the TSE at the time was , a minister linked to the topic of how and who strengthened the program to combat disinformation, including through .
Now, the court will be in charge of a minister appointed by (): , whose work in the area should be less interventionist and more restricted.
Another point of PT attention is the emergence of new viralization strategies on the networks. The main one is the one adopted in 2024 by the former candidate for mayor of São Paulo, which he used to disseminate content and distributed cash prizes to people who managed to get the most views.
In April 2025, he was convicted by the TSE and became ineligible for eight years due to , but the strategy of paying people —who came to be called clippers— to make cuts and disseminate content became professional, being used by companies to promote products.
The to explicitly ban the cuts, but was unsuccessful. The strategy allows content to be promoted without going through the platforms’ official mechanisms, such as political advertisements, which are registered in libraries. Inspection then becomes more difficult.
The expectation of those responsible for developing the PT strategy is that themes already explored by Bolsonaro’s campaign during the last presidential elections will be repeated.
Among them are moral issues, such as defending abortion and the creation of unisex bathrooms, as well as unproven accusations of . In the last elections, this was one of the most frequent themes of Bolsonaro campaigns.
When Lula wore a cap with the acronym CPX, which means complex, for example, the senator (PL-RJ), the PT’s rival in this year’s election, shared photos of rifles with the acronym engraved on it. Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, such as deputy Mario Frias (PL-SP), stated at the time that the acronym meant “cupinxa, partner in crime”,
A representation produced by the PT’s legal team this year, presented on March 16, identified the discussion about classifying criminal factions as terrorists as a new topic with potential repercussions in the electoral campaign.
One of the publications denounced in March, shared by the PL, Flávio and Carlos Bolsonaro (PL-SC) profiles, portrays Lula with a devilish face and a red background. The content also says that Lula does not want the factions to be treated as terrorists. The PT action was signed by the firm Ferraro, Rocha and Novaes.
According to the lawyers, the pieces “propagate untrue facts and decontextualize a complex issue of diplomacy/national sovereignty to carry out negative early electoral propaganda.”
In 2022, the on a similar theme and ordered the deletion of publications that linked the party to crime and the criminal faction PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital). Therefore, the assessment of those involved is that part of this jurisprudence will serve to strengthen legal actions.
A Sheet questioned the office about how they would act against false information in the next election, but there was no response. PT president, Edinho Silva, was also contacted through his advisor, but did not respond.
The result of past judicial offensives is taken into account by the party when preparing the new strategy. In the 2022 elections and between 2024 and 2026, the party reports having received at least 78 favorable decisions in processes linked to the dissemination of disinformation, of which 13 were in the common courts and 65 in the electoral courts.
In the electoral sphere, in the context of the 2022 dispute, the party records having taken down posts that sought to link the PT to the persecution of Christians, the attempt to eliminate agribusiness, the defense of abortion and the manipulation of ballot boxes, for example.
A photo of the president manipulated to suggest a meeting with, convicted of killing his parents, was taken to court and ordered to be removed.
The party’s main action on disinformation, however, was not judged. This is Aije (Judicial Electoral Investigation Action) presented at the end of the 2022 campaign as a way of concentrating reports of disinformation. The action accuses Bolsonaro’s team of creating a
Aije argued that this ecosystem had the participation of at least 81 profiles on the internet, including Bolsonaro’s children and parliamentarians such as congresswoman Bia Kicis (PL-DF) and former congresswoman Carla Zambelli, currently imprisoned for hacking the CNJ (National Council of Justice) systems.
