Just last week, the New York Times reported that Facebook is creating a censorship tool for the Chinese government. Just imagine what would happen if the Trump administration started knocking at Facebook's door too.
The election of Donald Trump means the role Facebook plays in the next four years will be even more crucial. We need your help more than ever to hold Mark Zuckerberg accountable and protect speech that promotes and documents threats to human rights. It's time Facebook stops hiding behind the false veneer of "neutrality" and commit to values of transparency, free speech, and human rights.
Facebook: it’s time to come clean about how you distribute your content and start protecting users from censorship.
44% of Americans got at least some news from Facebook this year. That puts an enormous amount of power in a single corporation. And Facebook has refused to be transparent about how the content we see ends up on our newsfeed.
Almost 150,000 SumOfUs members responded in horror when Facebook, at the request of police, deactivated the social media accounts of Korryn Gaines, a Black woman, right before police shot and killed her in front of her 5-year-old son. Right now, Facebook is both censoring itself because state authorities ask it to—and it doesn't mind that dangerous lies trended throughout the election cycle...
Let’s just say that’s not an America any of us want to live in. That’s why we’re fighting like hell to make sure it never happens. We along with over 75 organizations sent a letter to Facebook executives asking for transparency and an audit on the human rights implications of their policies.
Facebook, listen to over 150,000 of us and commit to transparency and human rights now.
Facebook is feeling the heat from our campaign especially in the press, and if we keep the pressure on, we can get it to commit to transparency and an audit on the human rights implications of their policies.
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Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back into China
New York Times. Liquid error: argument out of range.
New York Times. Liquid error: argument out of range.
How Facebook powers money machines for obscure political 'news' sites
The Guardian. 24 August 2016.
The Guardian. 24 August 2016.