Brazil's Lula accuses Meta of election interference
- On Saturday, Brazil's Superior Electoral Court ordered Meta to report within 48 hours whether it reduced the reach of President Lula's campaign posts and to "explain the anomalies in the metrics" of the videos.
- The court's directive followed a complaint from Lula's campaign, which alleged Meta "prevented President Lula's profile from promoting Instagram feed posts" and that his account "experienced an interruption in view counts, which affected its reach."
- Before the October 4 vote, profiles of leftist leaders "suddenly disappeared from Instagram's search function," according to the campaign, which claims these technical issues suggest an attempt to interfere to benefit Senator Flavio Bolsonaro.
- Meta's Brazil office denied the allegations, calling them "simply false" and "not supported by the facts," stating that "many of the technical issues mentioned did not affect only Brazil."
- With the October 25 runoff approaching, the Superior Electoral Court aims to resolve transparency concerns regarding platform neutrality before the election, requiring Meta to clarify its content moderation actions.
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Between his dream of winning a fourth mandate and suspending the gasoline tax, Brazilian President Lula da Silva finds himself in a new battle, this time against Meta accused of manipulating the electoral race through her giant digital platforms.
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lrytas.ltBrazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's campaign on Saturday accused tech giant Meta of interfering in the election by blocking the president's social media content on the company's platforms.
Brasilia. The campaign of the president of Brazil and candidate of the Workers’ Party to the reelection, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, denounced yesterday a “interference” in the electoral contest, by means of supposed blockades to its contents of Meta, the parent house of the platforms Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. In the last days, Meta “impitiated that the profile of President Lula would promote publications of the feed on Instagram”, while …
Brazil's Lula accuses Meta of election interference
The leftist leader is seeking a fourth non-consecutive term in the October 25 runoff, where he will face Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro. In a statement, Lula's campaign reported instances where platforms owned by Meta -- the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram -- allegedly restricted the distribution of his content. The campaign claimed that in recent days, Meta "prevented President…
The candidate's campaign points out that, in recent days, the US technology giant has prevented President Lula's profile from promoting ‘feed' publications on Instagram. Meta justifies technical problems.
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