Electoral Court Orders Instagram to Remove Posts Linking Wesley Safadão to Efraim Filho

Overview

• The Tribunal Regional Eleitoral da Paraíba ordered Meta/Instagram to remove two posts that connected singer Wesley Safadão to Senator Efraim Filho’s pre-campaign and to preserve the posts’ data for the legal case.
• The court set a 24-hour compliance window and a R$5,000 daily fine for Meta if the content is not taken down or data is not preserved for the process.
• The decision says video and photo material from a São João performance showed Safadão reproducing a ‘foguete’ gesture tied to Efraim’s pre-campaign and that use of the event’s main stage, funded with public money, gave the candidacy privileged visibility.
• The Ministério Público Eleitoral da Paraíba filed the complaint that named Safadão, Efraim Filho and cited Mayor Bruno Cunha Lima, and the court separately barred those three from making electoral manifestations on public-event stages or paid structures.
• At the time of publication Meta, Safadão’s team and Efraim Filho had not responded to requests for comment, and the order shifts the matter from investigation to active judicial enforcement that could affect how platforms and festival organizers handle political content.