A court ruling on deep fakes in election campaigning opens a dangerous can of worms, warns Leonardo Sakamoto.
Brazil has managed to turn into a legal dispute a question that, until recently, would have sounded like the plot of a bad science fiction film: can a political candidate use digital avatars of real people on the campaign stage?
Until now, the law had been unequivocal: no. But, as with almost everything in Brazilian politics, it turns out that ‘no’ doesn’t always mean ‘no’.
The dispute centres on a case involving the defeated opposition candidate Flávio Bolsonaro – the son of
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