Organizations and parties point out gaps to Brazil’s electoral court in regulating AI and influencers
- Feb 6
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Folha de S. Paulo - February 6, 2026
Civil society organizations, political parties, and government bodies have pointed out to the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) what they see as gaps in the regulation of the use of artificial intelligence in this year’s elections and in the actions of influencers.
They submitted recommendations for the TSE’s campaign advertising resolution, which will be published—incorporating the suggestions that are accepted—by March 5. Folha had access to ten of these submissions.
This year, the expectation is that the greatest challenge will be networks of influencers, fake and rented profiles boosting negative or positive campaign messaging on the fringes of electoral law, as well as the use of AI—including chatbots and deepfakes—in attempts to illegitimately influence the vote.
In the suggestions sent to the TSE, UFRJ’s NetLab and the Workers’ Party (PT) took the same line. The Liberal Party (PL), in turn, praised the paragraph, saying that it “strengthens freedom of criticism of the government and reduces the risk of indirect censorship during the pre-campaign period.”
