巴西选举法院法官下令Meta Platforms Inc.不要干涉来自任何候选人在10月25日决选中的政治或选举相关内容的传播。
A Brazilian electoral court judge ordered Meta Platforms Inc. not to interfere with the distribution of political or election-related content from any candidate in the Oct. 25 runoff.
法官马可·奥雷利奥·贝利泽周四在回应总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦连任竞选团队提出的投诉时发布了该命令。该投诉指控Meta“反复且系统性地未能传递”该左翼候选人的帖子给用户。
Judge Marco Aurélio Bellizze issued the order on Thursday in response to a complaint filed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s reelection campaign. It alleges that Meta has “repeatedly and systematically failed to deliver” the leftist candidate’s posts to users.
贝利泽威胁对不遵守命令的行为处以每日50万雷亚尔（约合98,100美元）的罚款。他的裁决可能受到全体选举法院的审查。
Belizze threatened a daily fine of 500,000 reais ($98,100) for noncompliance with the order. His ruling could be subject to review by the full electoral court.
现任总统卢拉正与保守派参议员弗拉维奥·博尔索纳罗展开势均力敌的角逐。
The incumbent Lula is locked in a neck-and-neck race with conservative Senator Flávio Bolsonaro.
卢拉的竞选团队还表示，他们在本周早些时候发现了一个涉及Meta AI的独立问题，该工具是公司在其热门通讯应用WhatsApp上提供的生成式人工智能工具。根据竞选团队的说法，该工具拒绝生成与卢拉相关的图像请求，而却会生成有利于博尔索纳罗的竞选材料。Meta未能立即回应在非工作时间发出的置评请求。
Lula’s campaign also said it identified a separate issue earlier this week involving Meta AI, the company’s generative artificial-intelligence tool available on its popular messaging application WhatsApp. According to the campaign, the tool refuses requests to create images related to Lula while generating campaign material favorable to Bolsonaro. Meta didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside business hours.
“考虑到该工具对任何WhatsApp用户开放，距离决选仅剩10天，要求其对两名候选人应用相同的标准是合适的，即既不生成有利于任何一方的选举宣传，也不生成反对任何一方的选举宣传，并要求公司解释其使用的标准，”贝利泽在裁决中写道。
“Considering that the tool is available to any WhatsApp user, with 10 days to go before the runoff, it is appropriate to require it to apply the same criteria to both candidates, refraining from generating election propaganda either in favor of or against either of them, and to require the company to explain the criteria it uses,” Bellizze wrote in the decision.