{"id":76764,"date":"2016-07-25T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=76764"},"modified":"2016-07-25T13:24:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T12:24:57","slug":"brazil-folhas-journalistic-fraud-far-worse-than-we-reported-yesterday-a-smoking-gun-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/07\/brazil-folhas-journalistic-fraud-far-worse-than-we-reported-yesterday-a-smoking-gun-emerges\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: Folha\u2019s Journalistic Fraud Far Worse Than We Reported Yesterday: A Smoking Gun Emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Para ler a vers\u00e3o desse artigo em Portugu\u00eas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/07\/portugues-a-fraude-jornalistica-da-folha-e-ainda-pior-surgem-novas-evidencias\/\" ><u>clique aqui<\/u><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/folhacover1-intercept-fraud-brasil.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-76749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/folhacover1-intercept-fraud-brasil-1024x544.png\" alt=\"folhacover1 intercept fraud brasil\" width=\"700\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/folhacover1-intercept-fraud-brasil-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/folhacover1-intercept-fraud-brasil-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/folhacover1-intercept-fraud-brasil-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/folhacover1-intercept-fraud-brasil.png 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Polling data concealed\u00a0by\u00a0<\/em>Folha<em>\u00a0shows a large majority want Temer to resign: directly contradicting\u00a0<\/em>Folha\u2019s<em>\u00a0key claim<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>62 percent of Brazilians want Dilma and Temer to quit and new elections held: not 3 percent as\u00a0<\/em>Folha<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>stated<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Incriminating\u00a0data was published, then unpublished, by Datafolha: discovered\u00a0yesterday by a Brazilian website<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Response\u00a0from <\/em>Folha\u2019s<em> executive editor \u2014 they withheld data that was not \u201cjournalistically relevant\u201d \u2014 cannot withstand scrutiny<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>21 Jul 2016 &#8211; <\/em>On Wednesday [20 Jul],\u00a0<em>The Intercept<\/em> published <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/07\/19\/brazils-largest-newspaper-commits-major-journalistic-fraud-to-boost-interim-president-temer\/\" >an article documenting<\/a> the extraordinary journalistic fraud committed by Brazil\u2019s largest newspaper,\u00a0<em>Folha de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/em>, in radically\u00a0distorting the views of Brazilians on the key questions of the country\u2019s political crisis. Specifically, <em>Folha<\/em>\u00a0blasted headlines to the country announcing\u00a0that 50 percent of Brazilians now want the extremely unpopular interim president, Michel Temer, to complete Dilma\u2019s term and remain as president through 2018, while only 3 percent favor new elections and only 4 percent want both Dilma and Temer to resign. That was squarely at odds\u00a0with\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/g1.globo.com\/politica\/processo-de-impeachment-de-dilma\/noticia\/2016\/04\/pesquisa-ibope-mostra-que-62-preferem-novas-eleicoes-presidenciais.html\" >prior polling showing<\/a> vast majorities opposed to Temer and favoring new elections.\u00a0As we documented, the actual polling data \u2014 which\u00a0<em>Folha<\/em>\u2019s polling firm, Datafolha, only published days after the article \u2014 did not remotely support <em>Folha<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0claims.<\/p>\n<p>But after our article was published, much more evidence was found \u2014 through amazing collaborative work by\u00a0internet sleuths \u2014 showing how extreme\u00a0<em>Folha<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0behavior was, including the discovery of a smoking gun proving that it was<em> much worse<\/em> than we knew when we published yesterday. Do not let the fact that this story involves polling data and methodologies obscure how\u00a0significant this episode\u00a0is:<\/p>\n<p>Weeks before the conclusion of the country\u2019s most virulent political conflict in at least a generation \u2014 the final Senate vote on Dilma\u2019s impeachment \u2014\u00a0<em>Folha,\u00a0<\/em>Brazil\u2019s\u00a0largest and most influential newspaper, not only distorted, but <em>actively concealed<\/em>, crucial polling data that completely negated what they \u201creported\u201d: data that\u00a0establishes that a large majority of Brazilians want \u201cinterim President\u201d Michel Temer <em>to resign<\/em>, not remain in office as the paper claimed. Put simply, this is one of the most remarkable, flagrant, and serious cases of journalistic malfeasance one can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>After our article\u00a0was published yesterday, the full-scale\u00a0unraveling of <em>Folha<\/em>\u2019s story began when Brad Brooks, Reuters\u2019s chief correspondent for Brazil, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bradleybrooks\/status\/755747249121026048\" >noted\u00a0an extraordinary discrepancy<\/a>: while\u00a0<em>Folha<\/em> trumpeted\u00a0on its front page that <em>only 3 percent of Brazilians want new elections and 50 percent want Temer to stay<\/em>,\u00a0the paper\u2019s polling firm, Datafolha, had issued <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/media.folha.uol.com.br\/datafolha\/2016\/07\/18\/av_presidente_michel_temer_v2.pdf\" >a press release<\/a> with the published data announcing that <em>60 percent of Brazilians actually want new elections<\/em>. Just compare this amazing contradiction:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_76765\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/graphics-1024x536-folha-temer-fraud.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76765\" class=\"wp-image-76765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/graphics-1024x536-folha-temer-fraud-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"Datafolha graphic on left: \u201c60 percent favor new elections.\u201d Folha graphic on right: \u201c3 percent favor elections.\u201d\" width=\"700\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/graphics-1024x536-folha-temer-fraud.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/graphics-1024x536-folha-temer-fraud-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/graphics-1024x536-folha-temer-fraud-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-76765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Datafolha graphic on left: \u201c60 percent favor new elections.\u201d Folha graphic on right: \u201c3 percent favor elections.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>How\u00a0could\u00a0this be? We immediately contacted Datafolha to ask this, but by then\u00a0our story had been picked up by most media outlets in Brazil and became a national controversy, so\u00a0they were refusing to talk to us further. They just simply would not explain this major discrepancy.<\/p>\n<p>But this discovery led to another towering question: In the underlying questions and data published by Datafolha, there was nothing showing that 60 percent of Brazilians favored new elections, as the firm\u2019s headline described. It was\u00a0clear that Datafolha only published some of the questions they asked, not all. That\u2019s because the questions were numbered, and the published document only included the questions numbered 7-10, 12-13, and 21. That\u00a0is not itself uncommon\u00a0or wrong (newspapers often withhold polling questions on different topics in order to roll out the reporting in stages), but it was bizarre that none of the questions Datafolha published supported or even related to its headline. So where did that 60 percent number \u2014 one that directly contradicted <em>Folha<\/em>\u2019s front-page report \u2014 come from?<\/p>\n<p>The answer was\u00a0discovered through outstanding investigative work by the website <em>Tijola\u00e7o<\/em>. First, led by Fernando Brito, they realized that Datafolha\u2019s published document containing the underlying <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/media.folha.uol.com.br\/datafolha\/2016\/07\/18\/av_presidente_michel_temer_v2.pdf\" >polling data and questions<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the document that we cited in our article to show that <em>Folha<\/em>\u2019s reporting was false\u00a0\u2014 had a URL that ended with \u201cv2,\u201d which meant that it was the second version of the document published by Datafolha. So they searched for the first version, but it was not\u00a0on Datafolha\u2019s site. Although the first version had apparently been unpublished by Datafolha, it was still a live link on their server, and, guessing the correct URL, <em>Tijola\u00e7o<\/em> was able to locate and download\u00a0it.<\/p>\n<p>What <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tijolaco.com.br\/blog\/o-datafolha-escondeu-e-o-tijolaco-achou-pesquisa-62-querem-novas-eleicoes\/\" >they found\u00a0there<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 which Datafolha apparently had unpublished \u2014 was stunning. It proved that <em>Folha<\/em>\u2019s story\u00a0was an absolute journalistic fraud. Included in that first version was Question 14, which asked:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA situation that could happen is new presidential elections in Brazil if Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer resign their office.\u00a0Do you favor or oppose Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer resigning in order to convene new elections this year for the Presidency of the Republic?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The unpublished data from Datafolha shows that <em>62 percent of Brazilians\u00a0favor the resignations of Dilma and Temer and then new elections held<\/em>, while 30 percent oppose that solution.\u00a0That means that \u2014 contrary to\u00a0<em>Folha<\/em>\u2019s claim that only 3 percent want new elections and 50 percent of Brazilians want Temer to stay as president through 2018\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<em>at least 62 percent of Brazilians, a large majority,\u00a0want\u00a0Temer\u00a0to resign now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/datafolha14-540x138-fraud-brasil.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/datafolha14-540x138-fraud-brasil.png\" alt=\"datafolha14-540x138 fraud brasil\" width=\"540\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/datafolha14-540x138-fraud-brasil.png 540w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/datafolha14-540x138-fraud-brasil-300x77.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The facts are\u00a0even worse for <em>Folha <\/em>(and Temer): The\u00a0percentage of Brazilians\u00a0that wants Temer to resign now is certainly much higher even than this 62 percent. That\u2019s because Datafolha\u2019s question asked whether people favor the resignations of both Temer <em>and Dilma<\/em>. Many of those who answered \u201cno\u201d \u2014 as the data breakdown shows \u2014 are members of PT (Dilma\u2019s party) and\/or want Lula to be president in 2018, which means they answered \u201cno\u201d not because they want Temer to stay, but because they want Dilma to return. So \u2014 just as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/g1.globo.com\/politica\/processo-de-impeachment-de-dilma\/noticia\/2016\/04\/pesquisa-ibope-mostra-que-62-preferem-novas-eleicoes-presidenciais.html\" >Ibope found in April<\/a> \u2014 it is only a very small minority of the country that wants Temer as their president: the exact opposite of what <em>Folha<\/em> \u201creported.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was not the only missing data that\u00a0<em>Tijola\u00e7o<\/em> discovered\u00a0when they found the first version of the published data. As they <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tijolaco.com.br\/blog\/folha-greenwald-e-o-acaso-que-fez-o-tijolaco-desmontar-farsa\/\" >explain in a comprehensive account of what they did<\/a>, there were two full paragraphs written by Datafolha summarizing this vital polling\u00a0data\u00a0that were also removed from the published second version, including this sentence: \u201cA majority (62 percent) declared themselves in favor of a new election for the office of president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Tijola\u00e7o<\/em> also discovered a separately concealed question \u2014 Question 11 \u2014 that is the most favorable yet for Dilma on the question of impeachment, which\u00a0<em>Folha\u00a0<\/em>omitted. Datafolha asked:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn your opinion, is the process of impeachment against President Dilma Rousseff following democratic rules and the Constitution, or is it disrespecting democratic rules and the Constitution\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Only 49 percent said impeachment complies with democratic rules and the Constitution, while 37 percent said it did not. When purporting to describe\u00a0the views of the country about impeachment, how could\u00a0<em>Folha<\/em> possibly conceal this very surprising and significant data?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/datafolha11-540x126-fraud-brasil.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/datafolha11-540x126-fraud-brasil.png\" alt=\"datafolha11-540x126 fraud brasil\" width=\"540\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/datafolha11-540x126-fraud-brasil.png 540w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/datafolha11-540x126-fraud-brasil-300x70.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night,\u00a0<em>Folha<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www1.folha.uol.com.br\/poder\/2016\/07\/1793761-perguntas-feitas-em-pesquisa-datafolha-causam-polemica.shtml?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" >published a response<\/a>\u00a0in the form of a news article that described\u00a0what it called the \u201ccontroversy\u201d provoked by our article. It glided over, and in many cases ignored,\u00a0most\u00a0of these key questions.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Folha<\/em> article\u00a0did note that contrary to its own previous\u00a0claim that only 3 percent of Brazilians want new elections, \u201cthe percentage that favors new elections increases to 62 percent when the polling firm asked about this explicitly.\u201d And it included the two questions it had previously kept hidden: one showing that a majority wants Temer to quit, the other showing a large minority viewing impeachment as a violation of democracy (<em>Folha<\/em>\u00a0failed to mention\u00a0that this new data had, in fact,\u00a0already been published\u00a0earlier that day by\u00a0<em>Tijola\u00e7o<\/em>):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/folhaq-540x540-brasil-fraud.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/folhaq-540x540-brasil-fraud.png\" alt=\"folhaq-540x540 brasil fraud\" width=\"540\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/folhaq-540x540-brasil-fraud.png 540w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/folhaq-540x540-brasil-fraud-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/folhaq-540x540-brasil-fraud-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/folhaz-fraud-brasil.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/folhaz-fraud-brasil.png\" alt=\"folhaz fraud brasil\" width=\"630\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/folhaz-fraud-brasil.png 630w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/folhaz-fraud-brasil-300x288.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the paper nonetheless insisted it did nothing wrong by hiding this data. It quoted its own executive editor,\u00a0S\u00e9rgio D\u00e1vila, as arguing that it is \u201cthe prerogative of the paper to chose what it believes is \u2018most journalistically relevant\u2019 when it decides to publish a poll.\u201d D\u00e1vila argued\u00a0that \u201cthe question about Dilma and Temer both resigning did not appear particularly noteworthy because it was known from prior polling and because, in the current political landscape, that option is not really considered any longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s impossible to overstate how irrational\u00a0this response is, and how much <em>Folha<\/em>\u2019s executive editor is counting on the gullibility\u00a0of\u00a0his readers. The biggest takeaway by far from\u00a0<em>Folha<\/em>\u2019s reporting was that the country is happy to have Temer remain as president through 2018, and only a tiny percentage want new elections. But while\u00a0<em>Folha<\/em> reported this, they were holding in their hands the data that proved these claims to be 100 percent false, showing that literally the opposite was true. A large majority of Brazilians want Temer to quit, not remain as president. And a large majority, not a tiny fringe, want new elections.<\/p>\n<p>None of D\u00e1vila\u2019s excuses withstand even the slightest scrutiny. If it\u2019s journalistically irrelevant to know what percentage of Brazilians favor new elections, why did\u00a0<em>Folha<\/em> have their polling firm ask this? If this question about new elections\u00a0is irrelevant, why was this data not only included, but <em>prominently highlighted<\/em> <em>in its headline<\/em>, by Datafolha in their original release? Why, if this data is irrelevant, did Datafolha publish it originally, only to then unpublish it by posting a second version that excluded it? And how can this data be deemed by\u00a0<em>Folha<\/em> to be journalistically irrelevant when it\u00a0<em>directly contradicts<\/em> the claims they hyped on their front page that were then amplified by the country\u2019s largest media outlets?<\/p>\n<p>Other media outlets certainly don\u2019t view this data as irrelevant. The\u00a0Brazilian edition of\u00a0<em>El Pais<\/em> last night <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/brasil.elpais.com\/brasil\/2016\/07\/21\/politica\/1469058507_825134.html\" >published a news account<\/a>\u00a0with the headline: \u201c62 percent support new elections, according to\u00a0data that Datafolha now publishes.\u201d The\u00a0<em>El Pais<\/em>\u00a0article casts the story as much a media scandal\u00a0as it does a political one, as it describes how\u00a0<em>Folha<\/em> hid this data until it was found as a result of\u00a0our story. Indeed,\u00a0<em>El Pais<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/brasil.elpais.com\/brasil\/2016\/07\/20\/politica\/1469041666_981644.html\" >published a separate story yesterday<\/a> quoting experts who echoed the ones we interviewed, harshly criticizing\u00a0<em>Folha<\/em> for how they misused this polling data.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_76770\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/elpais2-1000x321-folha-fraud-brasil.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76770\" class=\"wp-image-76770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/elpais2-1000x321-folha-fraud-brasil.png\" alt=\"elpais2-1000x321 folha fraud brasil\" width=\"700\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/elpais2-1000x321-folha-fraud-brasil.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/elpais2-1000x321-folha-fraud-brasil-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/elpais2-1000x321-folha-fraud-brasil-768x247.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-76770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Headline: \u201c62 percent support new elections, according to data that Datafolha now publishes.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Most amazingly of all, this was all done\u00a0in service of denying the need for democracy: deceiving the country into believing that most Brazilians\u00a0support the person who seized power undemocratically and that there is\u00a0no need for elections, when in fact the majority of the country wants this \u201cinterim president\u201d to quit and new elections to be held to choose the legitimate leader.<\/p>\n<p>As we noted yesterday, it\u2019s impossible to say whether <em>Folha<\/em>\u00a0acted with deliberate intent to deceive or with extreme journalistic ineptitude and recklessness, although evidence suggesting\u00a0the former is certainly more abundant now than it was yesterday.\u00a0But motives aside, what is now beyond debate is that\u00a0<em>Folha<\/em> misled the country in fundamental ways about this generation\u2019s most consequential political conflict and hid from the public vital evidence that they only admitted existed\u00a0once they got caught red-handed doing all this.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/07\/brazils-largest-newspaper-commits-major-journalistic-fraud-to-boost-interim-president-temer\/\" ><em>Brazil\u2019s Largest Newspaper Commits Major Journalistic Fraud to Boost Interim President Temer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/07\/major-new-brazil-events-expose-the-fraud-of-dilmas-impeachment-and-temers-corruption\/\" >Major New Brazil Events Expose the Fraud of Dilma\u2019s Impeachment \u2014 and Temer\u2019s Corruption<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/06\/credibility-of-brazils-interim-president-collapses-as-he-receives-8-year-ban-on-running-for-office\/\" >Credibility of Brazil\u2019s Interim President Collapses as He Receives 8-Year Ban on Running for Office<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/05\/watch-first-interview-with-brazils-president-dilma-rousseff-since-the-senates-impeachment-vote\/\" >Watch: First Interview With Brazil\u2019s President Dilma Rousseff Since the Senate\u2019s Impeachment Vote<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><u>______________________________________<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/staff\/glenn-greenwald\/\" >Glenn Greenwald<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:glenn.greenwald@theintercept.com\">\u2709glenn.greenwald@theintercept.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/staff\/erickdau\/\" >Erick Dau<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:erick.dau@theintercept.com\">\u2709erick.dau@theintercept.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/07\/21\/folhas-journalistic-fraud-far-worse-than-we-reported-yesterday-a-smoking-gun-emerges\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 theintercept.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022\tPolling data concealed by Folha shows a large majority want Temer to resign: directly contradicting Folha\u2019s key claim<br \/>\n\u2022\t62 percent of Brazilians want Dilma and Temer to quit and new elections held: not 3 percent as Folha stated<br \/>\n\u2022\tIncriminating data was published, then unpublished, by Datafolha: discovered yesterday by a Brazilian website<br \/>\n\u2022\tResponse from Folha\u2019s executive editor \u2014 they withheld data that was not \u201cjournalistically relevant\u201d \u2014 cannot withstand scrutiny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}