Meta is required to prove it treated Lula and Bolsonaro equally in Brazil's election campaign content
Lula accused Meta of interfering in Brazil's elections and favoring Flávio Bolsonaro. The campaign claims Meta's systems favored one candidate and that its AI did so. The Superior Electoral Court prohibited Meta from unequally reducing content reach and admitted to mistakenly deactivating Lula's ads. A judge ordered equal treatment for both candidates.
- Lula accused Meta of interfering in elections and restricting content.
- A judge ordered Meta to treat the two remaining presidential candidates equally in Brazil.
- The electoral justice of Brazil demanded proof of fair treatment on its networks from Meta.
- The advisory outlined six requirements for Meta.
- The left-wing president Lula is competing against the right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro in the second round.
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