For millions of Americans, Facebook and Instagram have become important gateways to news, politics, community conversations, candidates, and public policy. For members of the blind and low-vision community, accessible technology makes that enormous stream of information available to us, and that brings both opportunity and responsibility. What we hear through our accessible devices can inform an opinion, but what we are presented with can also help slant an opinion. That distinction matters. Social-media feeds are influenced by algorithms, advertising systems, automated moderation, and platform policies that determine what receives visibility and what may be limited or removed. Recent events involving Meta illustrate why we should pay attention. During Brazil’s 2026 presidential election, the President accused Meta of restricting campaign content while his opponent was not similarly affected. Meta denied political favoritism, saying technical incidents affected different parts of the political spectrum. Reporting indicates some of Lula’s campaign advertisements were mistakenly deactivated, while Brazil’s electoral authorities demanded equal treatment. Most significantly, the Meta Oversight Board described the broader problem as “recurring enforcement failures,” warning about both over-enforcement that suppresses political speech and under-enforcement that can undermine election integrity. The Board also pointed back to problems surrounding Brazil’s October 2022 presidential election. That does not establish that Meta is deliberately manipulating elections for one political party, but it gives voters a serious reason not to mistake an algorithmically managed social-media feed for a complete or politically neutral picture of the world. Another concern works in the opposite direction: harmful political misinformation may sometimes get through. In a 2026 experiment, Amnesty International reported that 8 of 15 test political advertisements it submitted to Facebook were accepted, even though fourteen of fifteen test ads contained what Amnesty characterized as election-related disinformation. Amnesty did not allow the test advertisements to go live.
That is why PASS Power believes one message rises above the noise: “perform your own research on everything, and vote,” and when early voting is available and practical for you, consider voting early. For people with disabilities, planning can provide more time to identify the accessible voting method that works for them. Nationally, federal law protects voting access for people with disabilities, and Vote.gov states that voters have rights to accessibility accommodations
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