A fascist who wants to bulldoze the Amazon is now Brazil’s President — thanks to rich companies that illegally spent millions to flood WhatsApp with fake news supporting him. We can make sure this never happens again by coming together to demand Zuckerberg clean up social media before any more of these kinds of terrifying politicians gain power:
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Dear friends,
This is terrifying — the man just elected President of Brazil wants to bulldoze the Amazon, has threatened to kill 30,000 "leftists", and praises dictatorships. And just months ago, almost nobody wanted to vote for him. How could this happen?!
Facebook’s WhatsApp.
CEO Zuckerberg sat back as rich companies illegally spent millions to flood the messaging platform with fake news and hate speech -- until the country trusted a fringe fascist more than anyone else.
Zuckerberg could have stopped it early and informed users. He didn’t. Now it’s on us to use this moment to shame Facebook into taking responsibility for fake news and hate speech spreading on its platforms -- and end it before more men like Brazil’s President take control of our democracies and our future:
Click to clean up our social media
WhatsApp is a fake news paradise: it’s fully encrypted and nobody knows what's going on. In Brazil, it was only after millions of people had already been conned by fake news that journalists started to notice! But there is a way out: convince WhatsApp to introduce fake-news filters that can be activated by users that alert them to potential disinformation.
For this to work the platform may need to allow users to make encryption optional, a solution that would both protect our democracy and our privacy.
The amount of fake news currently spreading on all of our social networks is creating a vast and staggering global crisis. Facebook continues to have hundreds of millions of active fake accounts! YouTube has 2 billion (!) account-holders watching up to an hour a day, but researchers say its algorithms are driving people to watch extremist, racist, and malicious content.
That’s why our movement is fighting back -- urging social media platforms, including WhatsApp, to stand up for citizens, democracies, and real information.
Click to sign below -- before more fascists use social media to turn us all against each other:
Click to clean up our social media
This is terrifying — the man just elected President of Brazil wants to bulldoze the Amazon, has threatened to kill 30,000 "leftists", and praises dictatorships. And just months ago, almost nobody wanted to vote for him. How could this happen?!
Facebook’s WhatsApp.
CEO Zuckerberg sat back as rich companies illegally spent millions to flood the messaging platform with fake news and hate speech -- until the country trusted a fringe fascist more than anyone else.
Zuckerberg could have stopped it early and informed users. He didn’t. Now it’s on us to use this moment to shame Facebook into taking responsibility for fake news and hate speech spreading on its platforms -- and end it before more men like Brazil’s President take control of our democracies and our future:
Click to clean up our social media
WhatsApp is a fake news paradise: it’s fully encrypted and nobody knows what's going on. In Brazil, it was only after millions of people had already been conned by fake news that journalists started to notice! But there is a way out: convince WhatsApp to introduce fake-news filters that can be activated by users that alert them to potential disinformation.
For this to work the platform may need to allow users to make encryption optional, a solution that would both protect our democracy and our privacy.
The amount of fake news currently spreading on all of our social networks is creating a vast and staggering global crisis. Facebook continues to have hundreds of millions of active fake accounts! YouTube has 2 billion (!) account-holders watching up to an hour a day, but researchers say its algorithms are driving people to watch extremist, racist, and malicious content.
That’s why our movement is fighting back -- urging social media platforms, including WhatsApp, to stand up for citizens, democracies, and real information.
Click to sign below -- before more fascists use social media to turn us all against each other:
Click to clean up our social media
Avaaz is fighting fake news and disinformation across the world. In Brazil, our "Elves" group exposed one of the largest disinformation networks in the country and got it taken down. But it was too little, too late. Social media algorithms have vast power over our societies, and they're force-feeding us poison right now. For the sake of everything we love, let's clean them up before it's too late.
With hope,
Ricken, Christoph, Fadi, Emma, Alice, Rosa, and the rest of the Avaaz team
MORE INFORMATION:
Election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil threatens the planet (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/
Corruption, fake news, and WhatsApp: how Bolsonaro won Brazil (Vox)
https://www.vox.com/world/
Fake News Is Poisoning Brazilian Politics. WhatsApp Can Stop It. (The New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/
Who is the 'Trump of the Tropics?': Brazil's divisive new president, Jair Bolsonaro— in his own words (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/
The three types of WhatsApp users getting Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro elected (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/
With hope,
Ricken, Christoph, Fadi, Emma, Alice, Rosa, and the rest of the Avaaz team
MORE INFORMATION:
Election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil threatens the planet (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/
Corruption, fake news, and WhatsApp: how Bolsonaro won Brazil (Vox)
https://www.vox.com/world/
Fake News Is Poisoning Brazilian Politics. WhatsApp Can Stop It. (The New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/
Who is the 'Trump of the Tropics?': Brazil's divisive new president, Jair Bolsonaro— in his own words (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/
The three types of WhatsApp users getting Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro elected (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/
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