Brazil's electoral court probes Meta and X over AI and content rules in Lula case

Brazil's electoral court (TSE) opened a disqualification case over Lula's complaint that Meta favoured Jair Bolsonaro's campaign, and ordered Meta and X to explain their AI use, content distribution criteria and any differences in how they treated the two campaigns within 24 hours, under a R$500,000 daily fine for non-compliance without cause. Lula's campaign says Meta restricted his Instagram account as election interference. Meta says the faults were technical, hit accounts on both sides and had nothing to do with politics. The judge wrote that opening the case does not confirm the accusations and gave Bolsonaro and his running mate five days to respond.

A later Semafor report says a Brazilian court ordered Meta to stop collecting content from local media outlets to train its AI models, following Lula's allegations. That report does not name the court or give a case number, and it is not confirmed by the earlier TSE reporting.