Using WhatsApp, a Facebook-owned messaging service, Bolsonaro supporters delivered an onslaught of daily misinformation straight to millions of Brazilians’ phones.
They included doctored photos portraying senior Workers Party members celebrating with Communist Fidel Castro after the Cuban Revolution, audio clips manipulated to misrepresent Haddad’s policies and fake “fact-checks” discrediting authentic news stories.
The misinformation strategy was effective because WhatsApp is an essential communication tool in Brazil, used by 120 million of its 210 million citizens. Since WhatsApp text messages are forwarded and reforwarded by friends and family, the information seems more credible.
The fallout from Folha’s front-page report compelled WhatsApp to issue an apologetic op-ed.
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"Essay on the Duty of Civil Disobedience"
by Henry David Thoreau
Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subject afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, power-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.
There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet effect do nothing to put an end to them; who sit down with their hands in their pockets, and say they know not what to do, and do nothing. What is the price of an honest man and patriot today? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret. There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
from "Essay on the Duty of Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau
Question
Use the passages to answer the question.
How are the passages most alike? Select the two correct answers.
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Responses
in their employment of a critical tone
in their employment of a critical tone
in their focus on the effects of technology
in their focus on the effects of technology
in their structure as essays
in their structure as essays
in their use of first-person point of view
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The passages are most alike in the following ways:
in their employment of a critical tone - Both passages critique contemporary societal issues, with Belli discussing the spread of misinformation in Brazilian elections and Thoreau addressing the injustices of war and slavery, emphasizing the moral responsibilities of individuals.
in their structure as essays - Both excerpts are structured as essays, presenting arguments and reflections on specific social and political issues.
The other options do not accurately reflect how the passages are alike. Belli focuses on the effects of technology (specifically WhatsApp), while Thoreau does not mention technology but rather discusses moral and ethical responsibilities. Additionally, Thoreau's piece primarily uses a first-person point of view, while Belli's piece is more journalistic in nature and does not emphasize personal perspective in the same way.
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