Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) is scrambling to combat fake news. Only now?

"TSE approves rule that speeds up the removal and investigation of fake news and disinformation from social media." This is the title of an article from October 20th of this year on Brasil 247. Yes, only now, in the middle of the second round, with 10 days left until the presidential elections, the TSE – the Supreme Electoral Court – is making a quick change to the rules for removing disinformation or fake news from social media, reducing the deadline from 48 hours to two hours.

Since 2018, the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) has had the opportunity to experience how detrimental fake news is to elections. But the impression is that the Court hibernates for years, only waking up during elections. It doesn't act, investigating the sources of the hate campaign, discovering where so much corruption comes from.

Friends are commenting that this turning a blind eye could be complicity with lies, with the imbalance in the elections in favor of fascism. I don't want to believe that; I'm more inclined to think it's the famous slowness of the justice system.

Others comment that, in these elections, we obtained several victories with the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) against the hate machine. But would it have been so difficult for the Court to take precautions?

And here we are again, concerned about the distortion of democracy due to fake news, which favors those who sense the "changing mood," deceiving and harming the poorest and most vulnerable.

Street life, lots of street action, lots of struggle—that's all that's left for us in this world of lies and deceit.

Democracy, already unbalanced due to social inequality, becomes even more weakened by the whirlwind of lies thrown at the people before, during, and after elections.

Despite all this, we will win, despite the fake news and the slow pace of the justice system in curbing it and arresting those responsible.