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Rio de Janeiro

Municipality of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil

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Oct 20, 2025
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How did the crowd size at the No Kings rally in Los Angeles compare to other similar events in 2024?

The downtown Los Angeles rally was reported as an estimated , a figure cited by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and presented as one of the largest single-city protests in L.A. in 2024, reflecting a subs...

Nov 12, 2025
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Have any governments or international organizations announced a global currency reset in 2024 or 2025?

There is that any government or international organization announced a formal global currency reset in 2024 or 2025; multiple independent analyses conclude the rumors are speculative and unsupported b...

Dec 13, 2025
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dean dilullo ever been in trouble

Available reporting shows multiple professionals named “Dean DiLullo/DiLullo” active in casino and hospitality management—one is a Nevada casino owner/executive (Carson Nugget) and another is a hospit...

Oct 18, 2025

How are protest attendance numbers typically calculated and verified?

Protest attendance is commonly estimated using , a method documented in September 2025 counts that produced estimates around 41,800–42,400 people with an explicitly reported . Independent monitors and...

Jan 15, 2026

Gillian antonelli

No reliable sources in the provided reporting identify a person named "Gillian Antonelli"; searches instead return several similarly named figures—most prominently Brazilian actress Giovanna Antonelli...

Dec 20, 2025

A drug and weapons trafficker killed by BOPE was the nephew of Flávio Dino.

A viral claim that a drug-and-weapons trafficker killed by BOPE in a May 2022 Rio operation was a nephew of Supreme Court minister Flávio Dino is unsupported by available reporting: multiple fact-chec...

Nov 28, 2025

Brazil digital id

Brazil has rapidly expanded a layered digital ID ecosystem anchored by the Gov.br platform, the Carteira de Identidade Nacional (CIN) and state rollouts of a blockchain-backed issuance system; officia...

Oct 30, 2025

what are the human rights violation in brazil

Brazil faces that cluster around excessive police violence, a crisis in the prison system, and structural discrimination against Indigenous, Afro‑Descendant (Quilombola) and other marginalized communi...

Oct 20, 2025

How did the no kings protest on October 18 compare to other recent protests in terms of turnout?

The October 18 “No Kings” protests generated with thousands gathering in major U.S. cities and hundreds to thousands in smaller communities, making them but not conclusively proven to be the single la...

Oct 19, 2025

What methods are used to estimate attendance at large protests like No Kings?

Crowd estimates for large protests typically combine aerial imagery analyzed with counting software, on-the-ground sampling, and model-based extrapolations, but methods vary and carry substantial unce...

Oct 19, 2025

Can social media and aerial photography be used to estimate protest attendance?

Aerial photography combined with social-media imagery can produce actionable estimates of protest attendance, as demonstrated by the University of São Paulo’s Monitor analyses that put recent Copacaba...