Brazil: Amnesty International experiment exposes Meta’s failure to catch election-related disinformation ads on Facebook

Amnesty International has today warned that Meta may be failing to effectively address election-related disinformation spread through its Facebook Advertisements platform ahead of Brazil’s presidential election on 4 October. Social media has been used to spread disinformation in Brazil for years. To investigate how Facebook handled election-related disinformation in advertising, Amnesty International conducted an experiment […] The post Brazil: Amnesty International experiment exposes Meta’s failure to catch election-related disinformation ads on Facebook appeared first on Amnesty International .