Meta Admits Lula Glitches, Denies Bias
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Brazil.– Meta acknowledged that a number of technical flaws affected the campaign of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, including the temporary deactivation of his advertising account, but denied that the incidents responded to a political decision or an attempt to interfere in Brazil’s presidential elections. The company, which owns [...]
Faced with Lula's campaign's denunciation of alleged restrictions on the scope of his publications, the company defended the neutrality of its algorithms and attributed the reported incidents to isolated technical failures, such as the temporary deactivation of an advertising account on September 23.
On Thursday, the Brazilian Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) ordered Meta to guarantee equal treatment for Lula and Bolsonaro's candidacies until the second round, scheduled for October 25, under threat of a daily fine of about $93,000.
Technological giant Meta denied the accusations on Friday that he acted with political bias during Brazil's presidential campaign, less than a day after the country's electoral tribunal ruled that the platform should give the same treatment to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and opposition candidate Flávio Bolsonaro in the run-up to the second round of October 25.
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