SÃO PAULO — A judge of Brazil’s top electoral court ruled Thursday that Meta must adopt measures to immediately secure equal treatment of the two presidential candidates ahead of an Oct. 25 runoff.
The ruling comes shortly after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is running against Flávio Bolsonaro, filed a complaint that accused the tech company that owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp of using biased algorithms and AI restrictions to favor opposition candidate Bolsonaro ahead of the election.
Lula’s campaign argues that accounts and advertisements associated with Flávio Bolsonaro have reportedly received artificially inflated visibility, with engagement metrics rivaling those of global celebrities. The two are in a close race for the presidency, after the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro garnered 47% of the vote against 45% for the incumbent in the first round on Oct. 4.
Brazil needs to ban facebook until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
brazil tried regulating it relatively recently. google featured ads against it in their literal brazilian front search page calling it censorship, us backed congress people made a ruckus because that’d mean a lot of fascists would be exposed.
you can imagine how the rest of it went. “freedom of speech” won.
Fucking Americans interfering with everyone’s elections, but threatening us if we try and interfere with theirs. It’s not like these private social media companies aren’t just an extended arm of the American government military complex.
American exceptionalism at its best. Fuck off America.
I was delving into the article to find out what possible solution they would propose, I hadn’t expected this:
Lula’s campaign wants Brazil’s top electoral court to order an immediate end to the content restrictions and pressure Meta to make up for the lost traction by doubling its reach to rectify the harm inflicted.
Based, actually. If anything, they should just ban Bolsonaro from the elections because of foreign interference.
Authoritarian!!!
You want Brazil to become Venezuela and ban the opposition that oppose the population? Tankie
Yes? 👉👈🥺
All the while, none of you two favors banning Meta… 🤔
Last time that we tried we got Trump tariffs, a whole disinformation campaign about authoritarian Brazilian regime spawn and Meta bribed half of the senate.
Also cutting off whatsapp could backfire spectacularly, especially on less resourceful population. I’m all for it, but more organisedly than an immediate ban.
wow I had no idea that had been done before
i mean it has literally played against you, you need to get something from them first. i would first rob facebook and then i’d ban them from the country.
I reckon Meta’s Brazil office isn’t much more than a desk and an underpaid employee. Not sure what would be there to rob.
When they banned lula from participating did you also agree?
Yes, the one based thing right-wingers do is to abuse the rule of law maximally push their agenda
Meanwhile Liberals do nothing except put a small stop to the ratchet effect.
You said it yourself, the right wingers already did it to Lula. Why shouldn’t he do the same to them?
“Why shouldnt the left act as the right?”
Well, so far that made bolsonaro win the first turn of elections, but maybe something will change in the next week when lula lowers the age to put kids in prison right?
You mean put right winger foreign backed agents in prison right?
Like lula’s vice president or his minister who works for george soros? Who are you talking about?
The Soros guy can go straight to jail.
Holy centrism.
How the fuck is the left acting like the right? The reasons to ban the left? Vibes. The reason to ban the right? Betrayal
Lowering age for being put in prison, religious demagogy, spreading lies about the opponent, buying votes using social programs, prosecuting people for jokes, selling oil to israel, looking the other way when maduro was kidnaped, and so on. Gotta be blind to not see any of this
Also
I don’t see how that has anything to do with banning or not the comprador.
Lula government is not even left-wing. He is the only left permitted to exist, the other two leftist presidents were overthrown in coups.
Leftists aren’t a misery cult, when we can win we should so that less people are harmed, what’s the point of performing idealism if it’s the most marginalized that get harmed?
