00:00A protest has been held outside Meta's office in Sao Paulo in Brazil amid allegation that the tech giant interfered
00:07with the elections.
00:09The demonstration comes after Brazil's Electoral Court ordered Meta to give equal treatment to incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da
00:17Silva
00:17and opposition candidate Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of their October 25 runoff.
00:23Over the past few days, Meta has deeply interfered in the Brazilian elections.
00:27They acknowledge this but call it a technical failure.
00:31This protest is a response to that.
00:33These are not failures.
00:35This is undue interference in Brazilian democracy.
00:38Lula's campaigns had accused the company which owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp of using bias algorithms and artificial intelligence restrictions
00:47to favour Bolsonaro.
00:49We are going through a moment where it is being discussed if in Brazil there is a foreign interference in
00:55our elections.
00:55It is being discussed by Lula's campaign, by his government accusations, suspicions.
01:01And we find that Meta is allowing ads from outside the country by people who wouldn't even be allowed to
01:07advertise and do electoral campaigning
01:09and allowing the purchase of ads segmenting Brazilians.
01:12Meta says recent problems were caused by global technical glitch, anti-fraud measures and regulatory compliance, not targeted suppression.
01:21MMM is now YOUR OWN ATTEMPAYERS, NO WAY YOU'VE I HAVE TO DO THIS ISSUEDLY
01:21ACHIECE
01:22THE OTHER DETROUS
01:22MMM IS SUEDLY
01:22MMM IS SUEDLY
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