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My key takeaway from this great new @NaomiNixWrites @washingtonpost piece is that tech companies have done far too little protect democracy. This is particularly galling in a post-insurrection world. The problems are systemic. #FixTheFeed washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
What if tech companies spent way less money on lobbying and managing civil and human rights leaders and spent that all on ending the way their algorithms amplify white supremacists, authoritarians and their mouthpieces?
What if they deeply invested in safety across languages and geographies? And enforced their rules against the powerful to the same extent they enforce against the oppressed?
3 years ago today David Duke, Richard Spencer, Jason Kessler, Evan McLaren, Elliot Kline, Thomas Rousseau, Matthew Heimbach & Patrick Casey organized the deadly white nationalist rally in #Charlottesville on social media.
100s of white supremacists remain on @Twitter & @Facebook
100s of white supremacists remain on @Twitter & @Facebook
In the lead-up to their deadly white nationalist rally, organizers used @Twitter and @Facebook to make their violent intentions known. Among those early organizers was Richard Spencer…
Using a combination of internal organizing on the Discord App and marketing on Facebook and Twitter, these marginal white nationalists assembled members of violent organizations who beat DeAndre Harris, grievously injured 34+ others and murdered Heather Heyer that afternoon.
Today @rashadrobinson @DerrickNAACP @JGreenblattADL and I will meet with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg & other Facebook execs about the #StopHateForProfit campaign. Our demands are already on the table, they've been on the table, many long before this campaign ever came to be.
You can find them here: stophateforprofit.org/productrecomme…. And this thread has details.
We're asking Facebook to: (1) Establish and empower permanent civil rights infrastructure including C-suite level executive with civil rights expertise to evaluate products and policies for discrimination, bias, and hate.
Today the @washingtonpost released an extremely scary video that illustrates how #FoxNews downplayed the early days of the #Covid19 crisis.
Right now it’s clearer than ever that #FoxNewsLies are powerful, toxic and dangerous.
And it’s time to put a stop to it.
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Right now it’s clearer than ever that #FoxNewsLies are powerful, toxic and dangerous.
And it’s time to put a stop to it.
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How did we get here? First, Fox News is a pro-Trump propaganda machine. They’ve spent years telling viewers that the “deep state” is out to get Trump, and they eagerly painted #covid19 as just the latest attack.
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But #FoxNews and others like them were wrong. The #coronavirus is a deadly and highly contagious global pandemic, and their downplaying of the virus as an attempt to support Trump will quite literally cost many lives.
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The SPLC and CAIR are pressuring donor-advised funds to blacklist conservative and Christian "hate groups" in an attempt to defund their political opponents. DAFs had $121 billion in 2018. /1
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In calling for this blacklisting, the report praises #ChangeTheTerms, a coalition of Soros-funded groups that pressure #BigTech to silence conservatives on the SPLC "hate group" list. /2 pjmedia.com/trending/splc-…
The entire report is very circular. In addition to citing Change the Terms, it cites a CAIR report from last year, urging philanthropic groups to blacklist "anti-Muslim hate groups," citing — once again — the SPLC "hate group" list. /3 pjmedia.com/trending/anti-…
Tech companies must do more to combat hateful behavior online. We have joined @amprog, @colorofchange, @freepress, @lawyerscomm and @nhmc for the official launch of #ChangeTheTerms. A movement to reduce hate online. changetheterms.org
We're live now launching #ChangeTheTerms. Watch here:
These recommended policies balance the desire to disrupt hateful activities online with the desire for free expression and privacy. #ChangeTheTerms is asking internet companies to adopt the model terms to address hateful activities on their services. changetheterms.org/terms
