Advocacy group Avaaz lagged the Mark Zuckerberg cutouts in DC in 2015.
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A group of individuals who explain themselves as victims of phony news is asking social networks business to do more to fight false information.
“Despite what you say in public, your platforms continue to be weaponized to spread lies, hate and fear. So we’ve come together from different corners of the world to say, enough is enough. You couldn’t protect us, but you can protect others,” the group stated Thursday in an open letter to Facebook CEOÂ Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEOÂ Jack Dorsey and YouTube CEOÂ Susan Wojcicki.Â
The group, which was arranged by advocacy group Avaaz, consists of a Finnish reporter who got death hazards for exposing Russian giant farms, leaders of the maltreated Rohingya in Myanmar, an unvaccinated teen and the daddy of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim. They likewise met executives from social networks business today. The concept, according to Avaaz, is to put faces to the “human cost of the crisis fueled by their platforms.”
Avaaz was likewise accountable for the cutouts of Zuckerberg in DC in 2015 when he affirmed prior to Congress. Its associated Correct the Record project contacts platforms to reveal corrections from independent truth checkers when somebody has actually shared or seen false information.
A Twitter agent stated that hearing these individuals’s stories will assist notify its choice making. Facebook and YouTube didn’t instantly react to an ask for remark.Â
