‘No deliberate action to unbalance election’: Brazil’s top electoral court fines Meta

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In a unanimous ruling, Brazil's top electoral court found no preliminary evidence that US tech giant Meta had deliberately acted to influence the outcome of last month's presidential election runoff, but fined its Facebook platform 7.5 million reais ($1.34 million) for failing to fully comply with judicial orders."The records contain technical failures acknowledged by Facebook itself, but there are no elements allowing us to conclude, on a preliminary basis, that there was deliberate action to unbalance the election," Justice Marco Aurelio Bellizze wrote in the ruling, referring to submissions made by Meta."That conclusion would require robust evidence, to be produced through the…

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