Amnesty International exposes how Meta failed to block election related-disinformation ads in Brazil

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An investigation has determined that Meta faces problems of moderation to curb shared electoral disinformation through ads posted on Facebook, allowing sharing from election fraud ads to ads that promote a military coup, through unverified accounts.

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We investigated what matters to Brazilians beyond what happens during the election campaign. Read more reports like this by clicking here. An experiment by Amnesty International showed that the measures of the Meta program are not sufficient to combat disinformation on Facebook during the Brazilian election campaign. The international NGO submitted 14 ads with disinformation about the Brazilian elections and one neutral ad. Eight were accepted, …

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• In the run-up to the presidential election in Brazil, Amnesty International submitted advertisements to Facebook to test the reliability of Meta's moderation system • More than half of the advertisements that broadcast election-related misinformation were accepted • The others were reported but were not rejected due to electoral misinformation Amnesty International warns that Meta may not be able to effectively combat the misinformation associ…