In a Thursday notice, the Workers' Party (PT) and its coalition said Meta disabled President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's re-election campaign's ad account on Wednesday, 11 days before the October 4 first round.
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👉 Why it matters. The restriction blocks the campaign from running new ads on Facebook and Instagram or using the custom audiences that make microtargeting possible.
PT communications secretary Éden Valadares said Lula's Facebook page was also disabled for a time. The campaign threatens to go to court. Meta said only that some of the account's activities broke its rules, without naming which.
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