How Brazil Broke the Far-Right “Curse”

Brazil re-elected President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro and rejecting a return to power for the Bolsonaro family. The result interrupted a regional rise in right-wing governments and, according to technology researcher David Nemer, broke a cycle in which political developments in the United States were echoed in Brazil.

The article says Lula won by more than four million votes after turning the runoff around in three weeks. His campaign alleged that Meta’s systems favoured Flávio, citing differences in content reach, AI image generation and advertising costs; Meta denied meddling, and Brazil’s electoral court ordered equal treatment for both candidates. The provided article text ends as Nemer begins discussing WhatsApp’s role in Lula’s win.