Meta employees admit to disrupting the Brazilian president's Instagram

Meta employees acknowledged in internal correspondence that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were disrupted during the country's elections due to restrictions imposed.

According to the report of Ambassador Arjan, quoted by Reuters, based on a new report published by a Brazilian newspaper, it was acknowledged in the messages that this platform offered the profile of Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, his rival, as well as his WhatsApp channel to users.

Meta stated that the technical disturbances mentioned in the report have already been made public and the conversations referred to in the report are only related to the severity of the disturbances and not political interference. The company's statement said: Any accusation that Meta has favored one side over the other is false.

Lula will face Bolsonaro in the second round of the election, which will be held on October 25. This is while Bolsonaro's performance was unpredictably stronger in the first round of voting held earlier this month.

In the past few days, Lola's team announced that it will submit a complaint to the Organization of American States that Meta, the owner of Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, manipulated social networks during the Brazilian elections.

Lula's party has claimed that some of his posts have appeared without the sharing option, and as a result, their influence has been limited. Also, in some stories of the accounts, access to the reactions and sharing section was prohibited.

A judge of Brazil's highest electoral court ordered the company not to unfairly limit the reach of political content related to both candidates until the end of the second round of the election.