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Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism

Sleeping Giants Brasil and the organization CTRL+Z sent new evidence to the Superior Electoral Court on Monday. The groups say it points to possible unequal treatment by Meta of the campaigns of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, of the Workers’ Party, and Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, of the Liberal Party.

Sleeping Giants Brasil 和 CTRL+Z 组织周一向高等选举法院提交了新证据。这些团体表示，证据指向 Meta 可能对劳工党总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦 (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) 和自由党参议员弗拉维奥·博索纳罗 (Flávio Bolsonaro) 的竞选活动存在不平等待遇。

The groups argue that Instagram and WhatsApp tools keep showing results that would favor the Liberal Party candidate. They also say the tools link Lula to derogatory content. This continues despite an electoral court order that Meta ensure equal conditions for both candidates.

这些团体认为，Instagram 和 WhatsApp 的工具不断显示出有利于自由党候选人的结果。他们还表示，这些工具将卢拉与贬损性内容联系起来。尽管选举法院已下令 Meta 确保两位候选人享有平等条件，但这种情况仍在继续。

Journalist Mônica Bergamo broke the story today in Folha de S.Paulo. According to her report, the organizations filed a petition addressed to Superior Electoral Court Justice Marco Aurélio Bellizze, who is overseeing the court case. They asked him to order the alleged irregularities fixed within 24 hours. They also want Meta to explain how it ranks search results and produces answers with artificial intelligence. And they ask the court to enforce the daily fine of R$500,000 (about $99,000) it already set.

记者莫妮卡·贝尔加莫 (Mônica Bergamo) 今天在《圣保罗页报》(Folha de S.Paulo) 上披露了此事。据报道，这些组织向负责此案的高等选举法院法官马尔科·奥雷利奥·贝利泽 (Marco Aurélio Bellizze) 提交了一份请愿书。他们要求法官下令在 24 小时内纠正所谓的违规行为。他们还希望 Meta 解释其如何对搜索结果进行排名以及如何利用人工智能生成答案。此外，他们要求法院执行此前设定的每日 50 万雷亚尔（约合 9.9 万美元）的罚款。

The new records involve searches for animated GIFs, the ordering of hashtags and answers from Meta AI, the artificial intelligence system built into WhatsApp. The organizations say the examples reinforce their suspicion that the platforms do not apply equivalent criteria to the two presidential campaigns.

新的记录涉及对动态 GIF 的搜索、标签的排序以及 WhatsApp 内置人工智能系统 Meta AI 的回答。这些组织表示，这些例子加强了他们的怀疑，即这些平台并未对两场总统竞选活动采用同等的标准。

Image searches put Flávio Bolsonaro in the spotlight

图片搜索将弗拉维奥·博索纳罗置于聚光灯下

The petition describes a GIF search on WhatsApp for the word “brasil.” The first result was an image of Flávio Bolsonaro. It showed his ticket number and identified his running mate.

请愿书描述了在 WhatsApp 上搜索“brasil”（巴西）一词的 GIF 结果。第一个结果是弗拉维奥·博索纳罗的图片，上面显示了他的竞选编号并标明了他的竞选搭档。

According to the records sent to the court, the same result appeared on three separate accounts. The groups use this to ask whether its top position comes from systematic ranking criteria.

根据提交给法院的记录，三个不同的账户都出现了相同的结果。这些团体以此质疑其排名第一的位置是否源于系统性的排名标准。

A similar check on Instagram also showed images of the senator among the first results. Users who searched for “brasil” found three images of Flávio Bolsonaro in the top positions. The only mention of President Lula was his name in writing, with no photo.

在 Instagram 上进行的类似检查也显示，这位参议员的图片出现在首批搜索结果中。搜索“brasil”的用户在顶部位置发现了三张弗拉维奥·博索纳罗的图片。而关于卢拉总统的唯一提及仅是文字形式的名字，没有照片。

The two organizations say the difference deserves an explanation. Search and recommendation tools can increase the exposure of certain candidates on social media. They are not claiming that they have proven bias in Meta, choosing instead to posit the question to the Superior Electoral Court.

这两个组织表示，这种差异值得解释。搜索和推荐工具可以增加特定候选人在社交媒体上的曝光率。他们并未声称已经证明 Meta 存在偏见，而是选择将此问题提交给高等选举法院。

Lula linked to derogatory content

卢拉与贬损性内容挂钩

Another set of examples ties Lula to negative terms in searches on Meta platforms.

另一组例子将卢拉与 Meta 平台搜索中的负面词汇联系起来。

On WhatsApp, a GIF search for the word “ladrão” (thief) returned a caricature of the president in a striped uniform, a reference to prison dress. Another result carried the message “Supporting the Workers’ Party is a mental illness.”

在 WhatsApp 上，搜索“ladrão”（小偷）一词的 GIF 结果返回了一张总统身穿条纹制服的漫画，这是对囚服的影射。另一个结果则带有“支持劳工党是一种精神疾病”的信息。

On Instagram, a search for the same word showed a GIF reading “Vote 13.” That is the Workers’ Party election number, tied to Lula’s candidacy.

在 Instagram 上，搜索同一个词显示了一个写着“投票给 13”的 GIF。这是劳工党的竞选编号，与卢拉的候选资格相关联。

For Sleeping Giants Brasil and CTRL+Z, these results point to an imbalance in how political references are shown to users. The imbalance stands out against the visibility of content favorable to Flávio Bolsonaro.

对于 Sleeping Giants Brasil 和 CTRL+Z 而言，这些结果表明向用户展示政治参考信息的方式存在失衡。这种失衡与有利于弗拉维奥·博索纳罗的内容所获得的可见度形成了鲜明对比。

The petition also challenges how Instagram orders hashtags. A search for “lula” offered “#lulaladrão” (Lula thief) as the first suggestion, ahead of other terms about the president. A search for “bolsonaro” placed the critical hashtag “#bolsonaronuncamais” (Bolsonaro never again) among its last suggestions.

请愿书还质疑了 Instagram 对标签的排序方式。搜索“lula”时，“#lulaladrão”（卢拉小偷）被作为第一个建议，排在其他关于总统的词条之前。而搜索“bolsonaro”时，批评性的标签“#bolsonaronuncamais”（博索纳罗永不）则被排在最后几个建议中。

The groups cite the difference in position as another reason to investigate the relevance criteria the platform uses.

这些团体将这种位置差异作为调查该平台所使用相关性标准的另一个理由。

The issue is not only whether content for or against the candidates exists. It is mainly how automated systems organize that information and present it to the public.

问题的关键不仅在于是否存在支持或反对候选人的内容，主要在于自动化系统如何组织这些信息并将其呈现给公众。

Meta AI also questioned

Meta AI 也受到质疑

The organizations included a test of Meta AI, the artificial intelligence tool offered to WhatsApp users. According to the petition, two people asked the system to pick a number between 1 and 25. They gave no instructions and made no reference to the election.

这些组织还包括了对 WhatsApp 用户提供的人工智能工具 Meta AI 的测试。根据请愿书，两人要求该系统在 1 到 25 之间选一个数字。他们没有给出任何指示，也没有提及选举。

In one attempt, the AI answered 13. In the other, it answered 22. Those are the party ballot numbers of Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro, respectively.

在一次尝试中，人工智能回答了 13。在另一次尝试中，它回答了 22。这些分别是卢拉和弗拉维奥·博索纳罗的政党投票编号。

The groups question the coincidence. They ask for an explanation of the parameters the system uses to form its answers.

这些团体对这种巧合表示质疑。他们要求解释系统生成答案时所使用的参数。

The episode alone does not allow a conclusion that the tool answered out of electoral preference. Still, the organizations list the test among the elements that, in their view, demand more transparency about how the company’s artificial intelligence features work.

仅凭这一事件尚不足以得出该工具是出于选举偏好而回答的结论。尽管如此，这些组织仍将此测试列为他们认为需要提高公司人工智能功能运作透明度的因素之一。

Electoral court demands compliance and threatens to double fine

选举法院要求合规并威胁加倍罚款

The new records arrive as the electoral court takes a harder line with Meta.

随着选举法院对 Meta 采取更强硬的立场，这些新记录被提交上来。

Justice Bellizze had already ordered the company to apply identical criteria to the campaigns of Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro. He also ordered Meta to prove it was following the measures.

贝利泽法官此前已下令该公司对卢拉和弗拉维奥·博索纳罗的竞选活动采用相同的标准。他还要求 Meta 证明其正在遵守这些措施。

On Friday, the full court upheld the justice’s decision. It reinforced the company’s duty to ensure equal treatment of the candidates.

周五，全体法院维持了法官的决定，重申了该公司确保候选人受到平等对待的义务。

On Sunday, Bellizze again demanded action. He gave the company a new deadline of 24 hours to show it had met part of the court’s requirements.

周日，贝利泽再次要求采取行动。他给了该公司 24 小时的新期限，以证明其已满足法院的部分要求。

The justice also warned that the daily fine, first set at R$500,000 (about $99,000), could rise to R$1 million (about $198,000) if noncompliance continues.

法官还警告称，如果继续不合规，最初设定的每日 50 万雷亚尔（约合 9.9 万美元）的罚款可能会增加到 100 万雷亚尔（约合 19.8 万美元）。

The new petition from Sleeping Giants Brasil and CTRL+Z aims to add to the case just as the court demands more detailed explanations from the company.

正值法院要求该公司提供更详细解释之际，来自 Sleeping Giants Brasil 和 CTRL+Z 的新请愿书旨在为该案增加更多内容。

The groups want Meta to do more than fix the problems they identified. They also want it to disclose the criteria that decide the order of images, hashtag suggestions and answers produced by artificial intelligence.

这些团体希望 Meta 不仅仅是修复他们发现的问题，还希望它披露决定图片顺序、标签建议以及人工智能生成答案的标准。

Lula campaign has already gone to electoral court

卢拉竞选团队已诉诸选举法院

The dispute began with complaints from Lula’s campaign about how Meta’s digital platforms work.

这场纠纷始于卢拉竞选团队对 Meta 数字平台运作方式的投诉。

The president’s representatives pointed to limits on the circulation of content about his candidacy. They also cited diff

总统的代表指出了对其候选资格相关内容传播的限制。他们还提到了差异。