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🚨NEW🚨 Hannah Gittings shares her important story
Hannah & her boyfriend Anthony Huber were in #Kenosha when they saw Kyle Rittenhouse with his semi automatic assault rifle. "Anthony ran off after him and tried to take this kid down." Kyle killed him. #FacebookSurvivors @Avaaz
Hannah & her boyfriend Anthony Huber were in #Kenosha when they saw Kyle Rittenhouse with his semi automatic assault rifle. "Anthony ran off after him and tried to take this kid down." Kyle killed him. #FacebookSurvivors @Avaaz
"The sheer number of times the 'Kenosha Guard Page" had been flagged...455 times... and still the page was not only left up; it was deemed not a danger, when there were people blatantly inciting violence, saying they're gonna shoot black people...It's a complete shock." @Avaaz
"I wish I could even put into words... the kind of pain that it's never going to leave me... How do I explain to my 3yo daughter that he's gone, that we can't go back home and he's gone and he's not coming back. Why? Why?"
#FacebookHurts @Avaaz
#FacebookHurts @Avaaz
Joyce Jones run for Mayor of Montevallo, #Alabama. "I ran on a platform of unity and inclusion. Living in the south, there's not a wide range of representation in government". Due to Covid's restriction, she used Facebook to get her message out.
#FacebookSurvivors @Avaaz
#FacebookSurvivors @Avaaz
During her campaign, rumours appeared on FB that she wanted to 'defund the police'. "It was a surprise to me because I had never said anything like that.
I tried for days to combat the information that was put out about me... the DISINFORMATION".
#FacebookSurvivors @Avaaz
I tried for days to combat the information that was put out about me... the DISINFORMATION".
#FacebookSurvivors @Avaaz
"It was impossible for me to combat it because the algorithm is built to give credit to the negative information. It tore apart our city, to the point that on Election day my grandmother, who was 88, and my mother [...] were actually turned away" at the poll station. @Avaaz
Violence kills.
Misinformation kills.
Hatred kills.
Facebook is The Enabler.
In partnership with @Avaaz, we have given a voice to a group of brave #FacebookSurvivors.
Here are their stories.
#FacebookHurts
Misinformation kills.
Hatred kills.
Facebook is The Enabler.
In partnership with @Avaaz, we have given a voice to a group of brave #FacebookSurvivors.
Here are their stories.
#FacebookHurts
Kristin Urquiza's dad was a supporter of President Trump.
"That messaging that it was safe to be on the other side of the pandemic [...] led to him waking up with Covid symptoms and passing away 19 days later".
Following his death, she co-founded @MarkedByCovid
@kdurquiza
"That messaging that it was safe to be on the other side of the pandemic [...] led to him waking up with Covid symptoms and passing away 19 days later".
Following his death, she co-founded @MarkedByCovid
@kdurquiza
"Facebook might not have pulled the trigger but FB did drive away the runaway car. In the day following my dad's death [...] I was appalled to see his newsfeed littered with misinformation" #FacebookSurvivors
@MarkedByCovid @kdurquiza @Avaaz
@MarkedByCovid @kdurquiza @Avaaz
As members of @SenateCommerce theatrically complain about how they are being "silenced", here are 4 deeply heartbreaking stories from #FacebookSurvivors that give a #warning about the type of pain millions of Americans could face if @facebook doesn't act. cc @guyro @andymstone:
"What happens on @Facebook does not stay on Facebook". Hate, racism, voter suppression. Just hear what happened when Joyce ran for mayor in a small town in #Alabama:
#FacebookSurvivor
#FacebookSurvivor
"There was no scream or noise I could make that could let out the feeling inside my chest" -- Hannah's is a story of heartbreak and incredible courage. She's now suing @Facebook because its misinformation & hate crises are costing lives. #FacebookSurvivors #DetoxFacebook
I can’t wait for the day people begin seeing the world and humanity as they are, instead of seeing them through the information filters @Facebook & @Twitter have created.
It never was, and won’t be perfect BUT...1/
It never was, and won’t be perfect BUT...1/
....at least it’ll be #human, not defined by an algorithm pursuing profit and addiction.
Just like religions, ideologies, and traditions imposed filters on how humanity perceived reality for generations, today social media platforms are the insidious meta-filters. 2/
Just like religions, ideologies, and traditions imposed filters on how humanity perceived reality for generations, today social media platforms are the insidious meta-filters. 2/
You, reading this post, may intellectually get the notion that Twitter or Facebook don’t define the real world or people - but on an emotional and behavioural level, that intellectual understanding will more often than not be meaningless. 3/
