Meta employees reported that accounts linked to Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula were restricted during the October 2026 election. The claim surfaced in an Al Jazeera report published on October 16, 2026, which quo…

The report cited a Slack thread where moderators noted that several of Lula's verified pages received temporary blocks and content demotions. The same thread referenced a policy memo dated September 30 that warned of …

The internal exchange described a workflow where the moderation queue flagged posts from Lula's accounts for review by a regional team in São Paulo. Moderators applied a “limited reach” label that reduced the posts' v…

A senior engineer in the thread argued that the label was applied preemptively, citing “political sensitivity” rather than concrete policy breaches. The engineer’s comment was marked with a question mark, indicating u…