Augusto Cury Poll Surge
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Brazilian candidate Augusto Cury rises to 11% in one poll, up from 2%, amid a surge of influencer endorsements on Instagram. Cury denies using bots or paid influencers, while Brazilian commentary questions whether he can finish higher than third place and examines the impact of Renan Santos’s restricted campaign.
Augusto Cury floods social media with influencers, surges in polls and draws rivals’ suspicion
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 suspici…
Augusto Cury Can Aim No Higher Than Third Place, Even With Renan’s Votes
Renan Santos is leaving the race’s center stage, and Augusto Cury is moving into it. Yet the shift has not disturbed the election’s central divide between frontrunners Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Fl…
Augusto Cury denies boosting social-media engagement with bots: ‘Let them investigate’
Augusto Cury says the sharp rise in his online following came from voters, not automated accounts. “Let them investigate. We invested around 50,000 reais. There are no bots,” he said during an appeara…
Augusto Cury denies manipulating social media after surge in polls, calls it a “silent revolution”
Augusto Cury’s support has jumped from 2% to 11% in the first round of the BTG/Nexus poll, a nine-point rise that has put the Avante presidential candidate under scrutiny. Cury welcomed the result, bu…