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Brazil’s Lula wins electoral court challenge against Meta for alleged pro-Bolsonaro algorithm bias (www.nbcnews.com)
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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.

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[–] 45 points 4 days ago

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.

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    [–] 25 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Brazil needs to ban facebook until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    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.

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    • [–] 24 points 4 days ago (19 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 4 days ago (18 children)

    Based, actually. If anything, they should just ban Bolsonaro from the elections because of foreign interference.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 days ago (7 children)

    Authoritarian!!!!

    You want Brazil to become Venezuela and ban the opposition that oppose the population? Tankie

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    All the while, none of you two favors banning Meta... 🤔

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  • [–] 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] -4 points 4 days ago (9 children)

    When they banned lula from participating did you also agree?

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

    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?

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  • [+] -7 points 3 days ago (7 children)

    "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?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    You mean put right winger foreign backed agents in prison right?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    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.

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