SOCIAL MEDIA
Brazil's left says Meta is tilting the runoff

Lula accuses Meta of boosting pro-Bolsonaro content. Illustration: TBR
Kim Kardashian has 343 million followers on Instagram, and her typical Reel draws 13.9 million views. Nikolas Ferreira, a right-wing congressman from Minas Gerais with 23 million followers, gets 38.25 million. A survey of 300 Reels from 30 accounts, published by the watchdog group Sleeping Giants Brasil, found that only Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi beat his median. Each of Ferreira's 10 most recent videos outdrew his follower count, making him the only account in the sample to pull that off…

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