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Brazil's Superior Electoral Court voted 7-0 on Friday 16 October to keep in force the order issued by Minister Marco Aurélio Bellizze against Meta until the 25 October runoff. The order bars Meta from reducing reach, dropping content from recommendations or restricting search for either Lula's or Flávio Bolsonaro's political content. Lula's coalition filed the complaint on 9 October, saying Meta failed to deliver its posts and that its Meta AI assistant refused images of Lula while producing material for Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta says it takes no side, calls favouritism claims false, and attributes the problems to technical incidents and an AI safeguard gap that has since been fixed. Non-compliance carries a fine of R$500,000 (about US$98,000) a day, and Meta must restore Lula's undelivered paid boosts by Wednesday 21 October.