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UK Meta staff union statement criticizes Brazil election handling
Panamerican Dispatch, translating ICL Noticias, said Communication Workers Union tech-sector members at Meta issued a statement accusing the company of biased, user-facing favoritism toward Brazil's Bolsonaro family.
- New headline Was: “Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections”
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- panamericandispatch.org is now reporting this
Panamerican Dispatch, translating a report from ICL Noticias, said members of the United Kingdom Communication Workers Union's tech-sector branch who work at Meta issued a statement criticizing the company's handling of Brazil's presidential election1.
The statement, as published in the translation, said Meta executives' political leanings have been no secret since 2016, but that this was the first time favors for politicians such as the Bolsonaros had been made user-facing to such an obvious and biased extent1.
Signatories said they want to build technologies millions of people use, and that watching their employer interfere in democratic processes in countries like Brazil would also undermine the credibility of what they build1.
The document ended with a call for fairness and democracy to be respected, according to the translation1.
The same report said Brazilians protested on Saturday, Oct. 24, outside Meta's offices in King's Cross, London, in a demonstration organized by a collective identified as the Alliance for Democracy and Brazilian Sovereignty1.
Meta's response was not included in the assigned coverage. The English text is a translation of a Portuguese ICL Noticias article, and the original union document was not independently posted in the assignment1.
