| ▲ | matheusmoreira 4 hours 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 4 hours ago | parent [-] |
| I don't know anything about this specific case, but in elections more generally, wouldn't filtering all candidates equally simply favor incumbents? |
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| ▲ | matheusmoreira 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > 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 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | gpm 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Eh, I think it'd favour whoever has the bigger media apparatus running other accounts supporting them... which also seems like a weird decision. |
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