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Erika Hilton Asks Brazil's Attorney General's Office to Act on False Posts Accusing Lula of Transphobia

She is responding to a viral misrepresentation of a Rio speech that she and Elika Takimoto say fueled a coordinated transphobic campaign.

Overview

  • Hilton filed a request with the AGU seeking investigations, accountability, removals, and public retractions over posts that distorted a Lula speech.
  • She stated she was not at the Rio event and had been in the interior of São Paulo, rejecting claims that Lula referred to her with a masculine pronoun.
  • Lula’s remark was directed at Rio state deputy Elika Takimoto during a ceremony marking 90 years of the minimum wage, in a segment warning about risks of artificial intelligence.
  • Takimoto posted the full video, affirmed the president was addressing her, and urged users to report the misleading content.
  • The narrative spread on social media through far-right politicians and influencers, including Eduardo Bolsonaro, Nikolas Ferreira, and Rubinho Nunes, and the AGU has not yet commented on the request.