Comment by matheusmoreira

2 months ago

> Official candidates are not suspended, and their content will remain available on their profiles.

Sounds good to me. Filtering all recommendations is fair, and they are not censoring the profiles.

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jfoster  2 months ago

I don't know anything about this specific case, but in elections more generally, wouldn't filtering all candidates equally simply favor incumbents?

  • matheusmoreira  2 months ago

    Brazilian electoral law tries to ensure all candidates have equitable access to media air time prior to the election. This filtering apparently exists to prevent distortions like X itself pushing candidates.

    • marcosdumay  2 months ago

      > equitable

      Proportionally to their incumbency.

      Some company distorting the reach is way worse than favoring the incumbents. But the access is not even supposed to be equitable.

    • jfoster  2 months ago

      But incumbents have a natural advantage, right? So any type of control trying to ensure similar levels of access is clearly going to be to the advantage of incumbents.

  • gpm  2 months ago

    Eh, I think it'd favour whoever has the bigger media apparatus running other accounts supporting them... which also seems like a weird decision.