80 pointsby nidnogg3 hours ago11 comments
  • nidnogg3 hours ago
    It’s sad but it’s real and it’s happening. In Brazilian news, this is actively being exploded upon and it is not reaching mainstream media properly.

    [1] - https://www.instagram.com/reel/De2BfVRD30o

    [2] - https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/10/16/meta-employees-...

  • goshxan hour ago
    At the same time, some candidates from the opposition are getting more views than Beyoncé and other artists known globally.

    https://sleepinggiantsbrasil.com/biblioteca/visualizacoes-de... (portuguese)

    • Terr_an hour ago
      To save others a couple clicks:

      > [Auto-Translated] The Sleeping Giants Brazil report analyzes 300 Reels of 30 Instagram profiles to investigate evidence of algorithmic favoring to federal deputy Nikolas Ferreira (PL-MG). Its ten videos totaled 410.5 million views, nearly three times the total of the 90 videos of the other nine MPs analyzed. In views by follower, its performance was 17.2 times the typical value of these deputies, 29.3 times that of the largest Brazilian profiles and 33.7 times that of the largest profiles in the world. His average viewing was behind only Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, surpassing celebrities such as Selena Gomez, Beyoncé and Justin Bieber. The study documents a persistent disparity that requires more transparency from the Meta, although public data does not allow it to determine its causes.

    • nidnoggan hour ago
      Both sides are pulling record levels of engagement. It's a colosseum out there. But yes, one of the sides is more automated as usual. Most of the left engagement is human driven.
  • Kapuraan hour ago
    meta employees will look at this and think that their job isn't political. what a j o k e.
  • msandford40 minutes ago
    At a certain point the big social media companies are going to have to publish their algorithms and/or let you choose your own re: friends updates, friends of friends, things your friends or friends of friends liked, etc. Make your algorithm too opaque and you run the risk of outrage engagement showing up as "the platform pushed this" whatwver that happens to be.
  • silverFork2 hours ago
    Did you expect more from FaceBook?
  • platevoltagean hour ago
    I hope to see Mark dragged in front of congress every day of his life next year.
  • moribvndvsan hour ago
    It’s just a technical issue that seems to magically and repeatedly happen in favor of right wing interests. Crazy how that just works out some times.
    • EdwardDiego13 minutes ago
      Whoopsie! A slight technical error that aligns with the politics of the White House, it's wild how that happens from time to time to time to time...
  • RockRobotRockan hour ago
    damned if you do, damned if you don't
  • quaddoggy12 minutes ago
    [flagged]
    • platevoltage9 minutes ago
      Are you claiming that Al Jazeera fabricated this report?
  • gnabgib3 hours ago
    Title: Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report

    > don't editorialize.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

    • nidnoggan hour ago
      Apologies! Fixed the title now