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Flávio Bolsonaro appeared to have convinced voters and investors in Brazil that his family name would not mean another four years of unrest. He could become president on Sunday.
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A judge at Brazil’s electoral court ordered Meta to stop restricting the distribution of political or election-related content in a way that treats President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his rival Flávio Bolsonaro unequally. The order followed complaints by Lula’s campaign that his accounts and posts on Meta platforms were difficult to find or disappeared, while Bolsonaro’s were more visible. Meta denied favouring either candidate and attributed the problems to technical failures. The company faces a daily fine of 500,000 reais if it does not comply. A single report said Meta staff had acknowledged internally that restrictive measures had adversely affected Lula’s Instagram accounts. Lula and Bolsonaro remain candidates in the presidential runoff, and their first televised debate ended in personal exchanges and mutual accusations of lying and corruption.
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A podcast episode examined how members of Brazil’s Bolsonaro family have gained influential positions. It reported that Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, had a good chance of becoming president in the following weekend’s election and would likely make pardoning his father, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for an attempted coup, one of his first actions. The episode also explored how Brazil had continued to embrace the family despite these events.
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Brazil was described as now being a right-wing country, while the Bolsonaro family was said to have promised alignment with Donald Trump and attacks on democratic institutions.