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Friend,

This week during President Biden’s farewell address to the nation, he
issued a stark warning for the American people about big tech and the rise
and concentration of power in the hands of the wealthy and powerful:

“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and
disinformation, enabling the abuse of power... the truth is smothered by
lies told for power and profit.”^[ [link removed] ]

It’s not hard to see what President Biden is referring to. Tech titans and
billionaires across the industry are all rushing to appease Trump and the
MAGA right wing in a desperate attempt to win their approval. Perhaps the
worst among them is Mark Zuckerberg, whose recent decisions have upended
the content moderation policies for Facebook and Instagram, allowing some
hate speech and misinformation to spread largely unchallenged by the
platforms.

[1]Join the thousands of other People For members who are demanding that
Zuckerberg and Meta reinstate commonsense protections for users. Facebook,
Instagram, and Threads cannot be controlled by Trump’s whims! >>

Just what sort of content will now be allowed on the platform?

“It has updated its policies to permit referring to women as "household
objects or property" and to gay or trans people as mentally ill.
Internal training material [...] appears to show that examples of newly
allowed speech include calling immigrants feces and using slurs to refer
to transgender people.”^[ [link removed] ]

And that likely just scratches the surface of the awful things Meta will
now allow to spread on their platforms.

We cannot look away while Mark Zuckerberg and Meta capitulate to Trump and
MAGA leaders—there must be guidelines for how information is spread
online.

Thank you for your advocacy on this issue.

The People For Digital Team

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Friend,

Less than two weeks before Donald Trump returns to the White House, Mark
Zuckerberg made a sweeping announcement: Meta (parent company of Facebook,
Instagram, and Threads) is eliminating moderation policies that protect
users from disinformation and hate.

Let’s be clear – this isn’t about free speech. This is about Zuckerberg
bowing to Trump and the MAGA movement.

[2]Sign the petition: demand Zuckerberg reverse these dangerous
changes! >>

These policies – announced with fanfare and under the guise of "free
speech" – were rolled out just before Trump’s second term begins. The
timing is no coincidence. Zuckerberg has handed Trump exactly what he
wants: a platform with no accountability and no guardrails, where hate
speech and lies can run rampant and virtually unchecked, except for the
reliance on “community based” fact-checking similar to what was adopted by
Twitter/X.

Billions of people rely on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. The decision
to abandon moderation isn’t just reckless – it’s a gift to MAGA extremists
who have long complained that moderation prevents them from spreading lies
without consequence. But bending the rules for Trump and his MAGA enablers
isn’t protecting free speech; it’s laying the groundwork for
authoritarianism.

We’ve seen what happens when platforms like Twitter/X abandon moderation:
an explosion of hate speech and lies.^[ [link removed] ] Don’t let Zuckerberg do the same
with Facebook.

[3]Tell Zuckerberg and Meta to stop bowing to Trump and restore moderation
policies! >>

Thank you for speaking out to protect truth and accountability. 

-- The People For Digital Team

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Sources:

[1] [ [link removed] ]“Key lines from President Joe Biden’s farewell address”CNN,
1/15/25.

[2] [ [link removed] ]“Meta built a global fact-checking operation. Will it survive?”
NPR, 1/10/25.

[3] [ [link removed] ]"Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk" NBC News,
4/16/24.

 

 

 


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