''Meteoro Brasil'' is a Brazilian YouTube channel created by the journalists Álvaro Borba and Ana Lesnowski. Borba and Lesnowski began their YouTube channel, ''Meteoro Brasil'', as an entertainment channel in 2017.

Content

Meteoro Brasil's videos include

pop culture Pop or POP may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Pop music, a musical genre Artists * POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade * Pop!, a UK pop group * Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band Albums * Pop (Gas al ...

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

and

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

. This YouTube channel also discusses societal attitudes to

misinformation Misinformation is incorrect or misleading information. It differs from disinformation, which is ''deliberately'' deceptive. Rumors are information not attributed to any particular source, and so are unreliable and often unverified, but can turn ou ...

History

On April 9, 2017, ''Meteoro Brasil'' was created on

YouTube YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by ...

to provide viewers with culture and entertainment about science, philosophy and

. After the

2018 Brazilian presidential election General elections were held in Brazil on 7 October 2018 to elect the president, National Congress and state governors. As no candidate in the presidential election received more than 50% of the vote in the first round, a runoff round was held ...

this channel was identified with a new wave of Brazilian liberal or left-wing channels and YouTubers, such as Sabrina Fernandes,

Felipe Neto Felipe Neto Rodrigues Vieira (born January 21, 1988) is a Brazilian YouTuber, businessman, actor, comedian, writer and philanthropist, currently having 44.7 million subscribers and more than fifteen billion accumulated views, he is considered t ...

, Lilia Schwarcz,

Henry Bugalho Henry Alfred Bugalho (born October 2, 1980), known simply as Henry Bugalho, is a Brazilian YouTube creator, writer, translator and philosopher. Bugalho is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Education Bugalho studied Philosophy at the F ...

, Caue Moura, Pirula, Jones Manoel. In 2019 the channel published a book named ''Tudo O Que Você Precisou Desaprender Para Virar Um Idiota'' (Everything You Needed To Unlearn To Become An Idiot). The work is satirizing misinformation in the book by Olavo de Carvalho and other Brazilian conspiracy theorists, right-wing thinkers or influencers. By November 30, 2020, ''Meteoro Brasil'' had gained more than 890,000 subscribers.

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External links

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