Musk says Twitter may have interfered with Brazil's election to help left wing candidates

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk suggested Saturday morning that Twitter possibly interfered in Brazil’s recent contentious presidential election.

"I’ve seen a lot of concerning tweets about the recent Brazil election," Musk wrote on the platform he took control of in October just days before the election. "If those tweets are accurate, it’s possible that Twitter personnel gave preference to left wing candidates."

The post suggests that Twitter employees may have been involved in influencing the recent election that was declared by the Brazilian Supreme Court as a narrow victory for socialist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva over the right wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

Lula won the election with 50.9% of the vote to Bolsonaro’s 49.1% in a result that triggered massive protests across the country by Bolsonaro supporters who alleged widespread fraud.

In late November, after previously acknowledging defeat, Bolsonaro claimed that an audit performed by his coalition showed signs of "malfunction" that his team believes affected some 280,000 voting machines.

The result would swing to 51.05% for Bolsonaro and 48.95% for Lula if the affected votes were invalidated.

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