TSE fines Google R$60,000 for failing to comply with a decision on links to Lula and Bolsonaro campaigns

The president is accused by his predecessor of committing abuse of economic power and misuse of the media for allegedly illegal promotion of electoral propaganda

BRASILIA – The minister Benedito GoncalvesInspector General of Superior Electoral Court (TSE), established that the Google pay a fine of BRL 60,000 for failure to comply with the decision requesting information on the use of sponsored links in advertising campaigns Jair Bolsonaro (PL) e Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) to the presidency last year. The decision was issued this Tuesday 18, in an electoral judicial investigative action (Aije) presented by the former president’s campaign against the PT in the 2022 elections.

The current president is accused of practicing abuse of economic power and misuse of the media for allegedly promoting illicit election propaganda on Google’s advertising platform.

The justification of the minister

Gonçalves justified the decision by pointing out that Bolsonaro’s campaign presented only one ad as wrongful and that the analysis of the abuse of power must be put in context.

“Since this was the only support for the breadth of the above evidence, it was agreed that the metric could only be plotted by taking into account the ad-drive landscape of both presidential campaigns facing each other up to the second round of the election,” he said. explained the minister.

Source: Terra

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