Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) fined Meta over its handling of election-related orders, but found no evidence of deliberate action to skew the election, Gulf News reported.
The TSE unanimously set the penalty at 7.5 million reais, about $1.3 million. Gulf News reported that the court faulted Meta for failing to meet deadlines and for not being sufficiently open about its inquiry.
The court's reporting judge said it had found no evidence of a deliberate effort to influence the election. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had accused Meta of algorithmic manipulation favoring Flávio Bolsonaro before the Oct. 25 runoff. Meta denied the allegation and acknowledged that technical errors led to some Lula campaign ads being deactivated by mistake, Gulf News reported.
The fine followed an October order requiring Meta to document equal treatment of both campaigns, with 24 hours to respond. EconoTimes previously reported on Meta's response.
In a separate measure, the TSE required human review of automated restrictions on presidential campaign ad accounts within two hours. Meta said it adopted that process, as EconoTimes reported in its coverage of the review rule.
