MPF Recommends to Meta Actions to Guarantee Freedom of Expression in the Election

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Ahead of the Brazilian presidential runoff election on the 25th, Meta, which operates Instagram and other platforms, has emerged as a key election issue. The campaign of incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has filed a lawsuit to disqualify her candidacy, alleging that Meta's algorithms operated in a way that favored her competitor. UN experts also [regarding] Lula's social media

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The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) entered with a public civil action against Meta, a company responsible for Facebook and Instagram, to force the platform to restore, in up to 24 hours, profiles and contents blocked or suspended in recent weeks. The body points out possible violations of freedom of expression and asks for the application of a daily fine of R$ 500 thousand for account unduly kept out of the air, in case of non-complian…

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According to the organ, the restrictions were operated by automated algorithms

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United Nations experts are explicitly accusing tech company Meta of influencing the presidential elections in Brazil. According to these researchers, Meta has blocked many social media accounts that are ‘disproportionately’ linked to a single candidate. No name is mentioned, but the experts thereby support a long-standing accusation by President Lula’s campaign team, which claims that Meta ‘systematically’ blocks his posts on Instagram and Faceb…

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The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office for Citizens' Rights of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office recommended that Meta adopt a series of measures to protect freedom of expression on social networks and to ensure transparency on content moderation during the

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UN experts urged Meta to assess whether its restraint, recommendation and artificial intelligence systems disproportionately restricted one of the parties to Brazil's electoral debate.