| | | | | | There's still time to help clean up social media for good – take action now. In my last email, I told you about our plan to kick misinformation off social media – by looking into platforms’ policies on political content and investigating their real-life impact.
We still need your help to make it happen. And with important elections scheduled around the world this year, there’s no time to waste. Will you help fund the campaign today? Want to learn more about the issue? Here’s my last email again… | | | | Think TikTok is just viral dance challenges? Think again.
Right now the platform is being swamped with false and misleading content, pushed by murky political actors. We saw it with COVID-19, and now it’s happening with the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
And that’s not all. This year, important elections are due to take place around the world. At this critical time, it’s vital that TikTok and other platforms get a handle on the vast amount of disinformation on their platforms.
This is where you come in. Mozilla supporters like you are helping make sure social media companies actively tackle this issue – by funding vital work to keep a close watch over their efforts to limit disinformation.
Together we can hold social media companies to account and curb the spread of disinformation. Help fund the research to make it happen – it only takes a minute: | | | | Along with thousands of supporters like you, we’re challenging social media companies to do more to tackle misinformation.
Most recently, we hopped on TikTok to ask them why they were only sharing Russian-backed content about the conflict in Ukraine – in a video that’s since been viewed and shared thousands of times.
By keeping on top of social media companies’ strategies to tackle misleading content, we can help ensure these platforms are doing what is needed to stop disinformation in its tracks for good.
Don't let misinformation win. Help fund the campaign to kick disinformation off social media – it only takes a minute: Cleaning up social media is a mammoth task – but together we can help truth triumph over disinformation.
Campaigning for social media companies to take action is an important first step. Help fund the campaign today and play your part in making it happen.
Thank you, for taking a stand against dangerous misinformation.
Ashley Boyd
VP, Advocacy & Engagement
PS: We’ve also created a set of Election Standards to help social media platforms police political misinformation. Help us do more important work like this by donating to the campaign today – it takes one minute.
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