.@instagram has somehow succeeded in convincing the world that it’s a fun, friendly platform.
In fact, it’s just like every other platform, filled with hate, disinformation and harassment, unable or unwilling to do the sizable moderation that it requires.
Having been a victim of intense harassment on this platform and others, it is beyond ridiculous that users, who have voluntarily given these platforms their data, are regularly left to fend for themselves and helpless to deal with what should be the simplest right: To feel safe.
Advertisers, those who support these platforms wholly, should be made regularly aware of the lack of care @instagram and others have for their users, their customers and even the world.
They have the ability to change the trajectory here. Certainly hope they consider it.
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1) Stop conflating “free speech” with advertising and data mining businesses. Moderation is done for customers (advertisers), not for 1A, which does not apply to them.
2) Competition is great! Let it happen. It will take the power away from monopolies!
3) The entire point of neo-Nazis, disinformation-peddlers and foreign influence operations using these big platforms is to recruit, amplify to more people and monetize. If they go to smaller platforms, great. But they don’t want to because they don’t have the reach.
4) The entire FrEE SpEeCH argument is blown up within this piece by the author. When you go to other, smaller platforms, you’re STILL POSTING! No one is being stopped from speaking their mind. They just don’t get to amplify. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of reach. Duh.
NEW: Not only is @youtube doing the bare minimum to stop election disinformation coming from OANN, they’re allowing it to be profitable by placing major advertisers on these videos. This is unbelievably irresponsible.
Examples below:
Here’s @Athleta sponsoring one of OANN’s videos that is labeled by @youtube to be election misinformation.
Here’s @QuickenLoans inadvertently sponsoring a debunked Project Veritas report on OANN because @YouTube placed them there.
There are some good policies in here, from @Twitter and it’s good to know that there’s one social network that’s actually thinking things through proactively (looking at you, @Facebook and @YouTube), but there are also some concerns:
1) Tweets with misleading information should not be able to be shared period. Why mark something as misleading and then allow it to be amplified across the platform despite the fact that it has already been deemed factually incorrect or somewhat incorrect?
2) Trending topics should be shut down until after the election. Too easy to game for those who want to sow confusion, even with additional context. People don’t care about the context. Twitter is giving people too much credit.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Fox News opinion shows have been pumping out dangerous disinformation about COVID-19, endangering the public and the people on the front lines trying to save lives.
Together with medical professionals, we are asking Fox’s advertisers, including several drug companies, to stand with us and stop advertising on Fox News until they end this horrific campaign of misinformation which, according to studies, has cost lives.
.@pfizer, as a drug company and a leading advertiser on Fox News, will you stand with the medical community stop spending ad dollars with the network until they stop their horrendous COVID misinformation?