Biden campaign steps up its criticism of Facebook, with an open letter to Zuckerberg and petition asking it to strengthen rules on misinformation
#MOVEFASTFIXIT After foreign operatives … Scott Nover / Adweek : Inside the Longshot Campaign to Get Advertisers to Ditch Facebook Ali Breland / Mother Jones : Facebook Employees Consider Work Stoppage to Push Zuckerberg to Take Action on Trump David Pierce / Protocol : Sony's future of gaming looks like ... a router Tweets: Joe Biden / @joebiden : Folks, we saw in 2016 what can happen when social media platforms are left unchecked and allow disinformation to run rampant. It puts the very integrity of our elections at risk. We simply cannot let it happen again in 2020. Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : Facebook with a salty response to the Biden campaign — “the people's elected representatives should set the rules, and we will follow them.” https://twitter.com/... Cecilia Kang / @ceciliakang : Biden's campaign is fed up. It has been in private negotiations with Facebook for months to strengthen fact-checking and for new rules on misinfo/harmful speech by politicians. Fed up, they are taking fight public with petition to Facebook and Letter to Zuckerberg Joe Biden / @joebiden : So far, Facebook has failed to enact any real reforms to stop the spread of disinformation on its platform. Time is running out. Today, we're releasing an open letter demanding the company change its policies: https://joebiden.com/... Joe Biden / @joebiden : With less than 150 days until Election Day, the stakes couldn't be higher. We've got to fix Facebook to protect our democracy and ensure fair elections. If you agree, sign the open letter today to demand Facebook take action. #MoveFastFixIt https://go.joebiden.com/... @sharylattkisson : Yes, please tell us what to think and believe. We don't want to do that for ourselves anymore. https://twitter.com/... Joe Biden / @joebiden : We can't let history repeat itself — Facebook needs to act now to stop the spread of disinformation and protect our elections. Watch my deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield break down what's happening and how you can help us fix it: https://joebiden.com/... https://twitter.com/... Josh Holmes / @holmesjosh : This is just dangerously irresponsible. First amendment cancelation has earned some bipartisan support lately and it should alarm the hell out of all of us. https://twitter.com/... TJ Ducklo / @tducklo : Facebook setting up quite the straw man here. There is *nothing* stopping them from preventing their platform from being a conduit for disinformation and deliberate attempts to suppress the vote. Do something about it here: https://joebiden.com/... #movefastfixit https://twitter.com/... Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert : cowards at Facebook would never DREAM of talking to Trump this way https://twitter.com/... Mike Memoli / @mikememoli : Facebook statement essentially says we'll follow Trump's EO instead of hearing out Biden, triggering a confounded response from Biden team https://twitter.com/... Rob Flaherty / @rob_flaherty : Facebooks statement is “we sided with Trump” dressed up in a bargain basement “we didn't pick a side” costume. https://twitter.com/... Neera Tanden / @neeratanden : Equating fact checking with protection of lying is precisely why @Facebook is broken, @sherylsandberg. It's become a force against democracy and truth. https://twitter.com/... Eric Schultz / @ericschultz : Facebook equating Biden and Trump tells you everything you need to know about the company's values https://twitter.com/... JT Lewis / @thejtlewis : This is a REAL slogan that Joe Biden just put out: “Fix Facebook. Beat Trump.” The Left wants to censor Conservative voices and they're not trying to hide it anymore. https://twitter.com/... Derek Utley / @realderekutley : Conservatives are far more popular and viral on social media. This is why @JoeBiden campaign is going to target Facebooks speech policy. The Democrats should fight in dirty ways. Stop infringing on our free speech. https://www.nytimes.com/... Jeremy Cliffe / @jeremycliffe : Biden takes on Facebook. This feels like a big moment. https://twitter.com/... Sean Garrett / @sg : wow. weird. can't believe that Republican FB staffers worried about their jobs post election day would write this! https://twitter.com/... @slpng_giants : It's unfortunate that the issue of disinformation has been made to be a partisan issue. The degradation of truth will affect everyone across the political spectrum. https://twitter.com/... Casey Mattox / @caseymattox_ : Politicians need to take their hands off social media platforms. Go ruin something else. This is a good statement by FB. https://about.fb.com/... Cristbal Alex / @cristobaljalex : “The Democratic candidate for President” has a name. It's Joe Biden. And he isn't going to stand by for a repeat of the 2016 election while Facebook makes the same mistakes again and again. Join Biden, and tell @Facebook to #MoveFastFixIt. Sign up here: https://joebiden.com/... https://twitter.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : Based on statements here, both parties are wrong. It shouldn't be whether the content can exist or not and whether it should be removed (aka censored) by Facebook, it should be about properly labeling and decisions to provide amplification, velocity, reach for harmful messages. https://twitter.com/... Jon Cooper / @joncoopertweets : We're less than 150 days out from Election Day, and @Facebook has yet to enact any real reforms of their policies that hurt our democracy in 2016. We don't have time to waste. Sign @TeamJoe's petition to demand a fair election. #MoveFastFixit https://joebiden.com/... Alyssa Milano / @alyssa_milano : We've got to fix @Facebook to protect our democracy and beat Donald Trump. Can we count on you to sign @TeamJoe's open letter to FB before it's too late? Click here: https://joebiden.com/ ... #MoveFastFixIt https://twitter.com/... Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : If you'll recall, Biden has been banging Facebook for its fact-checking policies since last October when Trump ran an ad saying Biden paid off officials in Ukraine, which had been debunked https://www.bloomberg.com/... Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier : Biden says Facebook needs to fix its misinformation policies, Facebook says the government should make rules for it to follow. https://twitter.com/... Rob Flaherty / @rob_flaherty : What on *earth* is this @facebook statement?? Yes, both sides are pressuring them but they decided to relent to the one who is saying “I'd like to mislead voters with no checks.” And on the next line, if they'd like to be regulated like a network.... https://twitter.com/... Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : Facebook already responded. Summary: Trump doesn't want us to fact-check. Biden wants us to fact-check more. Gov't should figure out what it wants and we'll do that https://about.fb.com/... Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : 1) Yes, good point that it's the job of elected officials to make rules about big issues like appropriate political campaign messages. 2) Facebook fought an effort to include it in political campaign rules made by elected officials https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/... Timothy Durigan / @timothydurigan : @donie This statement does not address Biden's #1 ask, for the company to promote quality journalism over conspiracy theories. https://joebiden.com/... Adam Green / @adamgreen : Good. Let's take the private fight public. Mark Zuckerberg has clearly cast his lot with Trump and gone all in — knowing a rationale FTC/FCC/DOJ would break up his monopoly. He actively wants 4 more years of Trump. And that's sick. @Facebook employees, push back too! https://twitter.com/... Nick Gillespie / @nickgillespie : FFS, when politicians start talking about regulating online platforms, get scared, regardless of your partisan affiliations. https://www.nytimes.com/... David Dayen / @ddayen : Facebook shouldn't be in the position of arbitrating what speech gets privileged. It should be broken up so it doesn't have that kind of power to begin with https://twitter.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Would rather see politicians identify Facebook's vast size and power as the issue as opposed to ‘I disagree with this content moderation decision,’ which just makes you a mirror-universe Josh Hawley https://twitter.com/... Cecilia Kang / @ceciliakang : Facebook's response since last October is that it will look into it and try to do better. The posts on mail-in voting and warnings of force against BLM protestors were the tipping point
Folks, we saw in 2016 what can happen when social media platforms are left unchecked and allow disinformation to run rampant. It puts the very integrity of our elections at risk. We simply cannot let it happen again in 2020.
Facebook with a salty response to the Biden campaign — “the people's elected representatives should set the rules, and we will follow them.” https://twitter.com/...
Biden's campaign is fed up. It has been in private negotiations with Facebook for months to strengthen fact-checking and for new rules on misinfo/harmful speech by politicians. Fed up, they are taking fight public with petition to Facebook and Letter to Zuckerberg
So far, Facebook has failed to enact any real reforms to stop the spread of disinformation on its platform. Time is running out. Today, we're releasing an open letter demanding the company change its policies: https://joebiden.com/...
With less than 150 days until Election Day, the stakes couldn't be higher. We've got to fix Facebook to protect our democracy and ensure fair elections. If you agree, sign the open letter today to demand Facebook take action. #MoveFastFixIt https://go.joebiden.com/...
We can't let history repeat itself — Facebook needs to act now to stop the spread of disinformation and protect our elections. Watch my deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield break down what's happening and how you can help us fix it: https://joebiden.com/... https://twitter.co…
This is just dangerously irresponsible. First amendment cancelation has earned some bipartisan support lately and it should alarm the hell out of all of us. https://twitter.com/...
Facebook setting up quite the straw man here. There is *nothing* stopping them from preventing their platform from being a conduit for disinformation and deliberate attempts to suppress the vote. Do something about it here: https://joebiden.com/... #movefastfixit https://twitter.…
Facebook statement essentially says we'll follow Trump's EO instead of hearing out Biden, triggering a confounded response from Biden team https://twitter.com/...
Equating fact checking with protection of lying is precisely why @Facebook is broken, @sherylsandberg. It's become a force against democracy and truth. https://twitter.com/...
This is a REAL slogan that Joe Biden just put out: “Fix Facebook. Beat Trump.” The Left wants to censor Conservative voices and they're not trying to hide it anymore. https://twitter.com/...
Conservatives are far more popular and viral on social media. This is why @JoeBiden campaign is going to target Facebooks speech policy. The Democrats should fight in dirty ways. Stop infringing on our free speech. https://www.nytimes.com/...
It's unfortunate that the issue of disinformation has been made to be a partisan issue. The degradation of truth will affect everyone across the political spectrum. https://twitter.com/...
“The Democratic candidate for President” has a name. It's Joe Biden. And he isn't going to stand by for a repeat of the 2016 election while Facebook makes the same mistakes again and again. Join Biden, and tell @Facebook to #MoveFastFixIt. Sign up here: https://joebiden.com/... h…
Based on statements here, both parties are wrong. It shouldn't be whether the content can exist or not and whether it should be removed (aka censored) by Facebook, it should be about properly labeling and decisions to provide amplification, velocity, reach for harmful messages. h…
We're less than 150 days out from Election Day, and @Facebook has yet to enact any real reforms of their policies that hurt our democracy in 2016. We don't have time to waste. Sign @TeamJoe's petition to demand a fair election. #MoveFastFixit https://joebiden.com/...
We've got to fix @Facebook to protect our democracy and beat Donald Trump. Can we count on you to sign @TeamJoe's open letter to FB before it's too late? Click here: https://joebiden.com/ ... #MoveFastFixIt https://twitter.com/...
If you'll recall, Biden has been banging Facebook for its fact-checking policies since last October when Trump ran an ad saying Biden paid off officials in Ukraine, which had been debunked https://www.bloomberg.com/...
What on *earth* is this @facebook statement?? Yes, both sides are pressuring them but they decided to relent to the one who is saying “I'd like to mislead voters with no checks.” And on the next line, if they'd like to be regulated like a network.... https://twitter.com/...
Facebook already responded. Summary: Trump doesn't want us to fact-check. Biden wants us to fact-check more. Gov't should figure out what it wants and we'll do that https://about.fb.com/...
1) Yes, good point that it's the job of elected officials to make rules about big issues like appropriate political campaign messages. 2) Facebook fought an effort to include it in political campaign rules made by elected officials https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.co…
@donie This statement does not address Biden's #1 ask, for the company to promote quality journalism over conspiracy theories. https://joebiden.com/...
Good. Let's take the private fight public. Mark Zuckerberg has clearly cast his lot with Trump and gone all in — knowing a rationale FTC/FCC/DOJ would break up his monopoly. He actively wants 4 more years of Trump. And that's sick. @Facebook employees, push back too! https://twit…
FFS, when politicians start talking about regulating online platforms, get scared, regardless of your partisan affiliations. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Facebook shouldn't be in the position of arbitrating what speech gets privileged. It should be broken up so it doesn't have that kind of power to begin with https://twitter.com/...
Would rather see politicians identify Facebook's vast size and power as the issue as opposed to ‘I disagree with this content moderation decision,’ which just makes you a mirror-universe Josh Hawley https://twitter.com/...
Facebook's response since last October is that it will look into it and try to do better. The posts on mail-in voting and warnings of force against BLM protestors were the tipping point