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Today’s @Facebook shareholder meeting will show us who is comfortable profiting off hate and chaos, putting lives at risk, and who has the courage to rise to the moment and put people over profits.
We appreciate the @Facebook shareholder proposals being presented today to address some of the civil rights, racial justice, and leadership concerns for the platform, organized by our @openMICmedia allies.
The lack of human and civil rights expertise at @Facebook puts lives at risk, and shareholders are right to be concerned about the risks that exposes the company to.
#ChangeTheTerms partner @RashadRobinson of @ColorOfChange will present a @NCFImpact resolution to get a full report on FB’s human and civil rights risks from the board of directors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-technology-202/2020/05/27/the-technology-202-trump-escalates-his-war-with-twitter-on-twitter/5ecd56e7602ff165d3e417fc/
Read the full text of the resolution calling for a @Facebook report on human and civil rights risks here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57693891579fb3ab7149f04b/t/5e398ce1a8c4ec2fbd6ff0ac/1580829921253/Facebook+Civil+Rights+Governance+Report+2020.pdf
. @Facebook’s misguided political ad policies give politicians free reign to lie + spread hate with impunity. A report on those policies as @SusanOzawa of @Harrington_Inv suggests would be a step towards enforcing the rules consistently for all users. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bu_wcilYuJePi0vPCsJIJaAYBJAGfeB4xDwKAxWVZXA/edit?usp=sharing
. @Facebook would also be wise to appoint an independent chair of the board, per a shareholder proposal by @JonasKron of @TrilliumAM.
And to address critical concerns, the @Facebook board should nominate a member with a “high level of human and/or civil rights expertise,” as proposed by @nllamb of @ArjunaCapital at today’s meeting.
To truly root out hate, we need commitments from @Facebook to ban white supremacists, immediately take down event pages and organic posts organizing armed protests, and commit to transparent inspections of outside auditors. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/us/coronavirus-extremists.html
The surest way to protect users + prevent tragedy born of online hate is to #ChangeTheTerms.
@Facebook must adopt our model policies to ban hateful activities, improve enforcement, transparency + due process in moderation, and ban hateful bots + trolls. https://www.changetheterms.org/terms
@Facebook must adopt our model policies to ban hateful activities, improve enforcement, transparency + due process in moderation, and ban hateful bots + trolls. https://www.changetheterms.org/terms
