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  "id": 16711513,
  "title": "How WhatsApp 'army' flipped Brazil election and halted Trumpian trend",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/how-whatsapp-army-flipped-brazil-election-and-halted-trumpian-trend",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-27T04:54:44.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-27/brazil-election-lulas-army-whatsapp-group-flipped-result/107313166"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Twenty-one days and an \"army\" of voters is all it took for a social media movement to grow so vocal it delivered Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva an historic fourth presidential term.",
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      {
        "outlet": "BBC News",
        "title": "How 'Lula's Army' WhatsApp channel helped turn Brazil election around",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/how-lulas-army-whatsapp-channel-helped-turn-brazil-election-around",
        "published": "2026-10-26T15:37:33.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Daily Times",
        "title": "US President Donald Trump questions integrity of Brazil’s presidential election",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/us-president-donald-trump-questions-integrity-of-brazils-presidential",
        "published": "2026-10-27T05:05:52.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Chronicle Ghana",
        "title": "World reacts to Lula’s victory in Brazil’s presidential election",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/world-reacts-to-lulas-victory-in-brazils-presidential-election",
        "published": "2026-10-27T05:36:51.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Lula’s historic Brazilian election victory",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/lulas-historic-brazilian-election-victory",
        "published": "2026-10-27T07:01:10.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}