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🚨LIVE IN 30 MINUTES🚨: Where are we now? RFOB Members discuss what we know from #ElectionNight and what Facebook is/isn't doing right now. Join us on all social channels.

STARTING IN 5 MINUTES! And we have shocking new research of disinformation, voter suppression, and calls for violence in the #Election2020

"The information being presented is being manipulated... "
@digitalsista

"They were using that content to basically say that this was Philadelphia trying to cheat, but we have seen that this is a target against the black vote."

@digitalsista

"These are key aspects of targeting specific groups."

@digitalsista

"Just to zoom out, the President of the US went on live TV last night and claimed, falsely that he had won the election, while many votes were still being counted."

@JGo4Justice

"You can see the difference in how Facebook and Twitter flagged these posts... FB's language is very big, twitter is more pointed and they note the content is disputed. Facebook needs to put much stronger warning."

@JGo4Justice

"The trump strategy is to sow chaos, and to organise, over social media, people to turn out and cause violence."

@JGo4Justice

"The fact that disinformation is being spread by the President is one chief difference but we also have to look at the use of social media in spreading disinformation."

@JGo4Justice

"We have over relied on corporate media. We cannot have a solely corporate media system if we want to be able to hols power accountable."

@JGo4Justice

"The fact that we had to spend so long verifying these was difficult."

@LauraEdelson2

"We saw distributed disinformation - this was hundreds and thousands of posts in different localities and when you put them all together, it shows that too many Americans were shown this lie that voter fraud was happening."

@fadiquran

"We saw misinformation targeting the Spanish speaking community, particularly in Florida but across swing states."

@fadiquran

"The true threat to our democracy is not voter fraud but disinformation, which is being fuelled by social media."

@fadiquran

"over 65% of people said they had seen one type of misinformation on Facebook... and none of them have ever been informed that they were targeted by Facebook, or received corrections."

@fadiquran

"Facebook really believed that they had a good day yesterday... they feel like they're getting away with this election."

@Moonalice

"When we do the post-mortem we are going to look back and realise that half of American lives in an alternate universe, and Facebook is largely responsible for this."

@Moonalice

"Two active supporters of QAnon got elected to the house of representatives, at least two... two million out of three million wound up in QAnon because of Facebook."

@Moonalice

"Facebook needs to take down disinformation about our democracy. We are on the brink here; we are actually testing the democratic experiment."

@JGo4Justice

"We need to deal with the way in which FB has made it seem like its an even playing field between those who are trying to vote, and politicians who are trying to win their candidacy in any form."

@digitalsista

"The way they approach this is that its somehow equal power dynamics and it's not."

@digitalsista

"The outcome of this election does not bode well for huge pressure at the federal level. I think the big pressure will come from states, cases against google and facebook respectively will be moved forward with renewed vigour."

@Moonalice

"We need to look at our ad disclosure laws and the online context as well and bring more transparency to that process. We need to make sure that our private data is not being used to undermine civil rights."

@JGo4Justice

It's a wrap! Thanks to @digitalsista @JGo4Justice @Moonalice and @fadiquran