A coalition of dozens civil rights organizations is blasting Silicon Valley's biggest social media companies for not taking more aggressive measures to counter election misinformation on their platforms in the months leading up to the midterm elections.
A coalition of five dozen civil rights organizations is blasting Silicon Valley's biggest social media companies for not taking more aggressive measures to counter election misinformation on their platforms in the months leading up to November's midterm elections.
YouTube spokeswoman Ivy Choi said in a statement that the company enforces its "policies continuously and regardless of the language the content is in, and have removed a number of videos related to the midterms for violating our policies." - While YouTube has maintained its commitment to police election misinformation in Spanish, the company declined to release data on how well it was enforcing those rules. That issue became particularly contentious in an August meeting between civil rights groups and Google executives including YouTube's chief product officer, Neal Mohan.
The Change the Terms coalition, which includes the liberal think tank Center for American Progress, the legal advocacy group Southern Poverty Law Center and the anti-violence group Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, among others, has urged the companies to adopt a wider range of tactics to fight harmful content. Those tactics include hiring more human moderators to review content and releasing more data on the number of rule-breaking posts the platforms catch.
The groups quickly identified what they said were the most urgent priorities facing all the companies and determined how quickly they would implement their plans to fight election-related misinformation. The advocates also urged the companies to keep their election integrity efforts in place through at least the first quarter of 2023, because rule-breaking content "doesn't have an end time," the groups said in multiple letters to the tech platforms.
"Essentially, they're treating 'big lie' and other dangerous content as an urgent crisis that may pop up, and then they will take action, but they are not treating 'big lie' and other dangerous disinformation about the election as a longer-term threat for users," Benavidez said in an interview.
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