Deputies and senators spent R$1.9 million from public coffers with Mark Zuckerberg’s company in 2024
A Metaa company that brings together , and WhatsApp, concentrated in 2024 the equivalent of 92% of spending by deputies and senators with large technology companies in the communications sector. The survey is from Poder360based on public data.
Chamber and Senate paid R$ 1.9 million to the company through , public funds that senators and deputies have every month to spend on their mandates.
The amount is much higher than that transferred to other such as Google, X (formerly Twitter) and Flickr.
O Googlefor example, received 7% of the resources in the same period – R$ 143,269. The company owns, for example, the video platform YouTube.
the company of , received only R$ 1,425.52.
Spending is mostly on platforms. According to the survey, there were no direct payments to networks like TikTok and Kwai last year.
The numbers are important because they show that Mark Zuckerberg’s social networks continue like .
END OF GOAL “FACT-CHECKIN”
On Tuesday (Jan 7, 2024), the Goal will end its fact-checking system. From now on, there will be a system similar to that of X, in which users themselves add comments about posts. The platforms’ own moderators will only focus on highly serious cases.
Zuckerberg says current policies to verify everything posted and content moderation practices “they went too far”. For him, it is necessary “restoring freedom of expression” no Facebook and no Instagram.
The fact-checking program for those who publish on Meta’s platforms had been implemented after .
This policy was used to “manage content” and misinformation on Zuckerberg’s company’s social media, in large part because of , Meta executives said.
META ALSO LEAD IN THE 2024 ELECTIONS
Facebook was the big tech which received the most in the 2024 municipal elections. Candidates from all over Brazil registered the payment of R$195 million for promoting content. The given official platform of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court).
