Augusto Cury floods social media with influencers, surges in polls and draws rivals’ suspicion
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- Presidential candidate and writer Augusto Cury of Avante has received a wave of scripted endorsement videos from influencers on Instagram.
- The campaign has also drawn mass comments promoting Cury’s ballot number and raised suspicions among his rivals as he surged in a poll.
Opening Instagram in Brazil over the past week likely meant encountering support for Augusto Cury, the writer and Avante candidate for president. Influencers posted a series of scripted videos declaring their votes for him.
The online campaign also included mass comments publicizing Cury’s ballot number. His growing presence on the platform coincided with a sharp rise in polling, prompting suspicion among opposing candidates.
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Originally published by Folha de S.Paulo in Portuguese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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