“The election in Brazil “was very clearly a rigged election.”
What PolitiFact found
There is no evidence the election was rigged. Election observers in Brazil and internationally have reviewed the processes and determined the election was safe.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tucker Carlson (Fox News host) made this claim around 9 January 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 January 2023, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Tucker Carlson has 48 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 23 of them false or fake, 14 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20230110_060000_Tucker_Carlson_Tonight/start/480/end…
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