RELEASE: Advocates, Elected Officials Demand Facebook Address Spanish-Language Disinformation Crisis, Release Action Plan and Demands Ahead of Hearings
Date: March 16, 2021
Phone: 202.481.8145
Washington, D.C. — Today, a coalition of racial justice and internet accountability organizations—the Center for American Progress, Free Press, National Hispanic Media Coalition, and Real Facebook Oversight Board—joined members of Congress to demand action from Facebook on its Spanish-language content moderation gap, a crisis that is pushing extreme disinformation and hate to Spanish-speaking communities in the United States. The coalition called on Facebook to implement four key reforms immediately: “We call on Facebook to publicly identify an executive-level manager to oversee U.S. Spanish-language content moderation policy and enforcement, to publicly explain the translation process of the algorithm and content moderation, and share the training materials used to review whether content violates existing policy.”