| Friend — We have reason to believe that Mark Zuckerberg, and the Oversight Board he created, will make the wrong decision later this month by allowing Donald Trump back onto Facebook.
Zuckerberg has a well-established pattern of behavior whenever his platform faces public criticism of its record on white supremacy and disinformation. He trots out meaningless actions designed for PR, not for real change. And all of us pay the price.
If Facebook again prioritizes greed over our democracy, safety and health, our movement must be ready to stand up and fight. Could you donate today to help make sure that Free Press is ready to fight Facebook with all we’ve got? The fact is, we have little reason to expect that the Facebook Oversight Board will do what is clearly the right thing. Facebook selected board members and pays them to do their work. Facebook decides what they review and limits the content they can base their decisions on.
No one would respect a climate-change study funded by Exxon Mobil. Or a nutrition report from sugar-industry scientists. A ruling from the Facebook Oversight Board is the same thing, dressed up for the internet age.
Our movement has made significant progress against Big Tech’s hate-and-lies-for-profit business model this past year, and we need your help to continue standing up to Mark Zuckerberg. Please donate today. This past January, Free Press was instrumental in getting Trump kicked off Twitter for good. We were directly involved in the talks with Amazon and Google that led them to drop Parler. We recruited 1,000+ companies from Coca-Cola to Ford to Target to boycott Facebook ads last summer.
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P.S. Mark Zuckerberg and his company have shown us again and again how eager they are to continue profiting from hate and disinformation. Their failures to crack down on these forces helped lead to the killing of racial-justice protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor and the Jan. 6 white-supremacist insurrection at the Capitol. Please donate today to fund our critical fight against Big Tech’s hate-and-lie-for-profit model in the months and years ahead.  |
