BelémWithin 30 minutes, X posts branded Lula a pedophile.
Lula was urging men to get prostate exams, 6 days before Brazil’s 4 October first round.
The accusation circulated hours before he spoke, and an edited clip of the speech then gave it momentum.
Grok replied that the claim was wordplay and it had no records supporting it.
Polymarket traders price a Flávio Bolsonaro win by 4–8% at 28%, down 18 points in a week.
How each outlet framed it
- Global Voices leans critical
- reconstructs how Bolsonarista users manipulated Grok with a planted pedophilia accusation, tracing 1,819 posts across September 28-29
Sources: Global Voices