The ruling announced on Wednesday was watched closely by tech critics and advocates, marking one of the first times such a large tech platform has publicly made a crucial, public decision regarding who gets to use its platform to speak.
Activists who had discouraged Facebook from allowing the return of the president say the announcement underscores failures of the oversight board, a regulatory group that was formed in 2020 to make decisions independent of Facebook’s corporate leadership.
“Instead of addressing the core problems in its platform, [Facebook] exploited this fragile moment in our society in order to sell us the fiction of this oversight group,” said Angelo Carusone, president and CEO of Media Matters for America. “Don’t buy it. Now, they’re kicking the can down the road again.
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
Members of Congress and activist groups have called on Facebook to address its “Spanish-language disinformation crisis”, urging the company to make major policy changes on the platforms it owns. In a new campaign launched on Tuesday, the Democratic representative Tony Cardenas of California and groups including Free Press Action, the Center for American Progress and the National Hispanic Media Coalition charge that Facebook is not doing enough.
Inside the fight to close the Spanish-language disinformation gap on Facebook
2021-03-16 16:00:00 UTC
As Facebook continues its effort to reign in misinformation, some activists argue it isn t enforcing its policies as adequately for Spanish-language posts in the U.S. â a failing that could impact the more than
Misinformation and disinformation posts in Spanish are similar to what you might see in English, but there are some key differences that specifically single out Latinx people on the platform in the U.S. In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, fake news stories in Spanish tried to tie Joe Biden to socialism, a particularly damaging piece of misinformation given socialism s history in authoritarian Central and South American governments,