Brazilian court orders Meta to prove Lula and Bolsonaro get equal treatment

Days before Brazil’s presidential runoff, the Superior Electoral Court gave Meta 24 hours to prove its feeds do not favour Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva or Flávio Bolsonaro. It doubled the daily fine for noncompliance from 500,000 to one million Brazilian reals. The ruling followed a complaint from Lula’s campaign alleging that his Instagram profile was not fully promoted and that posts by his supporters were disproportionately removed. Meta denies favouring either candidate, but says some of Lula’s campaign ads were temporarily taken down because of technical errors.