It's Time to Flip the Switch on Hate and Lies!
Tell Facebook to implement a circuit breaker that flips the switch on hate and lies.
This Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will join other big tech CEOs to testify at a Congressional hearing on Social Media’s Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation.
TheFacebook Users Union has a message for him about what he should pledge to do to stem the flow of hate and lies:
Sign this Petition: Facebook should create a circuit breaker to help prevent dangerous disinformation and incitements to violence from ever reaching a mass audience .
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Facebook should create a "circuit breaker" to prevent dangerous disinformation and incitements to violence from ever reaching a mass audience.
By the time millions of people have shared false information, it's already too late.
A simple circuit breaker could have stopped disinformation about the pandemic and about the 2020 elections from reaching millions of people.
Disinformation and incitements to violence are nothing new. What is new is online platforms that spread controversial content at lightning speed, before anyone's had a chance to check it for dangerous disinformation or incitement to hatred and violence.
That's how the verifiably false Plandemic video spread to more than 8 million people in one week before social media companies took it down.
Circuit breakers are used in stock exchanges when there's a dramatic drop, to pause trading and allow traders to assimilate new information and make better-informed choices. Social media circuit breaking would work the same way, pausing the most high volume posts for fact-checking before they reach millions of people.
Facebook can and should build and flip the switch!