Organizations Ask US Congress to Investigate Meta's Role in Brazilian Election - 21/10/2026 - World - Folha de S.Paulo
Five civil society organizations, including the Washington Office on Latin America and Amazon Watch, asked the US Congress on Tuesday (20) to investigate the role of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, in Brazil’s presidential election. According to the organizations, the involvement of an American company in a foreign electoral process requires greater transparency and oversight.
The letter cites Folha reports on problems with content moderation, the distribution of posts and the placement of political ads ahead of Sunday’s (25) runoff between incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro. The episodes include internal messages in which Meta employees acknowledge that restrictions harmed Lula’s Instagram accounts, as well as recommendations of Flávio’s profile and a WhatsApp channel associated with him.
Meta denies electoral interference, says it applies the same rules to all candidates and attributes the episodes to technical failures or unintentional errors.
