Nighttime photo of London city streets with traffic speeding by and lit office buildings. At center of image is a projection onto a multistory brick wall showing the Meta log and Mark Zuckerberg with a burning Brazilian flag and the message “Meta is destroying Brazilian democracy”

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   Siun (christinasiunoconnell@federate.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 00:28:27 JST Siun

   A new #SumOfUs report shows how #Google and #Meta profited as insurrectionists live-streamed assault on #Brazil’s Congress. Some livestreams from #far-right attackers were broadcast for the entirety of invasion and gathered millions of live views. https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.sumofus.org/images/Research_SumOfUs_Brazilian_Riots_January_11th_2023.pdf

   Two of these videos were still available on Monday afternoon. Since ads were allowed to run freely on these channels and videos, the tech platforms and the extremist influencers would have profited directly from this content.