: Facebook Owner Meta Is Failing to Prevent Repeat of Jan. 6 in Brazil, Report Warns #WorldNEWS Meta is failing to stop a Jan. 6-style movement gaining traction on Facebook and WhatsApp in Brazil, a

Facebook Owner Meta Is Failing to Prevent Repeat of Jan. 6 in Brazil, Report Warns #WorldNEWS
Meta is failing to stop a Jan. 6-style movement gaining traction on Facebook and WhatsApp in Brazil, a rights group has warned in a new report.
Campaigning for Brazil’s next presidential election is currently underway, with the first round of voting scheduled for October 2. Jair Bolsonaro, the country’s rightwing populist president, has embraced comparisons to Donald Trump throughout his tenure and is now drawing from the former U. S. President’s 2020 playbook as he lags behind his leftwing opponent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
In recent months Bolsonaro has sought to sow doubt about the validity of Brazil’s democratic processes, warning repeatedly of the risk of fraud, and alleging without evidence that the country’s electronic voting system is vulnerable to interference. In speeches he has said that “only God” can remove him from office. Some of Brazil’s key military officials have echoed his claims of possible fraud, sparking fears that the world’s seventh most populous country could be vulnerable to a military coup if Bolsonaro is defeated at the polls in October.
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“If need be,” Bolsonaro said at an election rally in June, “we will go to war. ”
Content questioning the validity of the upcoming election is spreading rapidly on social media, according to a new report titled “Stop the Steal 2. 0” that was shared exclusively with TIME by the non-profit watchdog SumofUs. The spread of this content is contributing to a Jan. 6-style movement gaining traction in Brazil—and Meta, which also owns Brazil’s most widely-used messaging platform WhatsApp, is not doing enough to prevent it, according to SumofUs. The findings echo those of another report published by Global Witness in mid August, which found that Facebook repeatedly approved ads containing falsehoods about the Brazilian election.
Social media’s role in Brazil’s elections
The impact of social media on Brazilian politics is hard to overstate. Some 83% of Brazilians get their news online, including via social media, according to the Reuters Institute. WhatsApp is the most popular platform in Brazil, with 78% of people using it regularly; Facebook is used by 67% of the population. “Bolsonaro is the first Brazilian president, probably one of the few leaders in the world, who governs by social media, much more than Trump ever did,” says Thomas Traumann, a Brazilian journalist and political analyst who served as a spokesperson for Dilma Rousseff, one of Bolsonaro’s predecessors as president.
In the report shared with TIME, SumofUs identified posts, ads and private messages on Facebook and WhatsApp that it said contributed to “inciting a violent coup.

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