Instagram · Renan Ceschin · Unknown · Oct 14, 2026
The video refers to Lula’s 2023 remarks about people with mental disorders and a WHO statistic, but the population figure in the quote is wrong and the framing is misleading.
Claim-by-claim breakdown
Accurate (95% confidence): Lula used offensive language about people with mental disorders and linked them to violence in a 2023 speech. News coverage from April 2023 reports that Lula used the phrase and later apologized for it.
Accurate (93% confidence): The World Health Organization says about 15% of working-age adults live with a mental disorder at any point in time. WHO guidance states that an estimated 15% of working-age adults have a mental disorder at any point in time.
False (99% confidence): 20 million people times 15% equals almost 30 million people. 15% of 20,000,000 = 3,000,000. The claim in the clip is numerically incorrect.
False (98% confidence): Brazil has about 20 million inhabitants. IBGE estimates Brazil’s population at roughly 203 million people, not 20 million.