Internal Meta messages obtained by Folha show employees acknowledging restrictions that affected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s Instagram accounts, as well as algorithmic recommendations of Flávio Bolsonaro’s profile on Instagram and his campaign channel on WhatsApp, a practice prohibited by Brazil’s electoral court. On October 9, Lula’s campaign was unable to boost posts on Instagram for nearly 24 hours; it estimated that about 1.3 million people missed the ads.