> 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.
> Lula’s complaint also claims there’s a stark disparity in Meta’s artificial intelligence tools, with users failing to generate campaign images related to the 80-year-old president via WhatsApp’s “Meta AI” feature, but being able to do so if they want to promote content in support of Flávio Bolsonaro.
In the US, Meta would have a First Amendment right to boost one political candidate's speech over another's, a Section 230 immunity to do the same, and a First Amendment right to discriminate in what its AI allows users to generate.
"Meddling" is too strong a word. This is essentially a routine judgement, a rather minor issue when you consider all the other stuff that's going on in this election. Lula is literally pulling out all the stops.
> 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.
> Lula’s complaint also claims there’s a stark disparity in Meta’s artificial intelligence tools, with users failing to generate campaign images related to the 80-year-old president via WhatsApp’s “Meta AI” feature, but being able to do so if they want to promote content in support of Flávio Bolsonaro.
In the US, Meta would have a First Amendment right to boost one political candidate's speech over another's, a Section 230 immunity to do the same, and a First Amendment right to discriminate in what its AI allows users to generate.
Meta is meddling with Brazilian elections
"Meddling" is too strong a word. This is essentially a routine judgement, a rather minor issue when you consider all the other stuff that's going on in this election. Lula is literally pulling out all the stops.
Have you seen this one? It seems Patriot Act scandal level if it is true, honestly probably an order of magnitude worse
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/how-the-military-will-hack...