{"id":1986782,"date":"2023-07-31T12:41:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T16:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-groups-citing-election-disinformation-already-pressuring-zuckerberg-for-censorship-on-meta-platforms\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:43:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T16:43:58","slug":"democratic-groups-citing-election-disinformation-already-pressuring-zuckerberg-for-censorship-on-meta-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-groups-citing-election-disinformation-already-pressuring-zuckerberg-for-censorship-on-meta-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic groups are urging Zuckerberg to censor misinformation on Meta platforms due to election concerns."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocratic-groups-citing-election-disinformation-already-pressuring-zuckerberg-for-censorship-on-meta-platforms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1986782&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Coalition of Voter Outreach Groups Urges Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Censor &#8220;Disinformation&#8221; on Platforms<\/h2>\n<p>A coalition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-groups-citing-election-disinformation-already-pressuring-zuckerberg-for-censorship-on-meta-platforms\/\" title=\"Democratic groups are urging Zuckerberg to censor misinformation on Meta platforms due to election concerns.\">left-leaning voter outreach groups<\/a> has\u200b recently sent a letter to \u2064Meta CEO Mark\u200d Zuckerberg, urging\u200b him to take action against &#8220;disinformation&#8221; on the\u2062 company&#8217;s platforms\u2063 in preparation for the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The groups argue that Meta&#8217;s newest platform, Threads, should swiftly adopt policies to remove speech \u200bthat \u200bcontradicts official\u2063 government \u2062positions on issues like election integrity.<\/p>\n<p>In their letter, Vote.org and 11 other organizations express \u2062their \u200dconcern over YouTube and Twitter&#8217;s decision to scale back policies that restricted free \u200cspeech before, during, and after the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>While Twitter owner Elon Musk has vowed to maintain a platform that fosters free speech, YouTube announced in May that it would no longer remove certain posts.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;In the current environment, \u2064we find \u200dthat while\u200c removing this content does curb \u2062some \u200bmisinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech \u200cwithout meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-places-alert-on-cpac-link\/\" title=\"Twitter Places Alert On CPAC Link\">real-world harm<\/a>,&#8221; YouTube said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With that \u2063in mind, and with\u2064 2024 campaigns well underway, we will stop removing \u2064content that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youtube-bans-trumps-full-cpac-speech-unless-users-add-countervailing-viewpoints-about-election-claims\/\" title=\"YouTube Bans Trump\u2019s Full CPAC Speech Unless Users Add \u2018Countervailing Viewpoints\u2019 About Election Claims\u00a0\">advances false claims<\/a>\u200c that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential \u200delections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The coalition of voter outreach groups is urging Zuckerberg to \u2062continue censoring the speech of Americans, warning that failure to\u200d do so could lead to\u2064 violence.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;As you know, both YouTube and Twitter have recently taken concrete steps\u2062 to \u200callow election disinformation to thrive on their platforms,&#8221; the letter reads. &#8220;In the absence\u200d of strong protections for election integrity and \u2063for voters, we have seen \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftist-disinformation-police-pressure-meta-to-run-election-interference-on-new-threads-platform\/\" title=\"Left-wing 'Disinfo' Police Push Meta for Election Interference on New Threads Platform.\">real-world fallout<\/a>, from the siege on the Capitol to a new swarm of voter suppression laws introduced in states around the country after the 2020 election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The letter does not specifically mention any state laws that could potentially disenfranchise \u2062voters. However,\u2063 it \u200bdoes reference a Georgia election\u200c integrity law implemented in 2021 that required voters to prove their identities. Although the law faced criticism, it resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-deflects-blame-for-mcauliffe-loss-says-he-cant-stop-republican-turnout\/\" title=\"Biden Deflects Blame For McAuliffe Loss, Says He Can\u2019t Stop Republican Turnout\">high voter turnout<\/a> during the last fall&#8217;s elections.<\/p>\n<p>The voter outreach groups emphasize the\u2062 importance\u200d of ensuring\u2062 that Threads does not \u2064become a platform where baseless conspiracies and unverified reports are allowed to spread.<\/p>\n<p>They conclude their letter \u2062by stating, &#8220;Our democracy depends \u2064on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The letter was signed by the following organizations: Vote.org, Cause Communications, End\u2062 Citizens \u2063United, \u2064GAIN Power, Let\u200b America Vote Action Fund, NETWORK Lobby, No\u2064 Business \u200dWith Genocide, People Power United, Public Citizen, Public Wise, RepresentUs,\u200c and When We All Vote.<\/p>\n<h3>Threads Faces Challenges as Daily Traffic\u2064 Declines<\/h3>\n<p>Threads, which was \u200cintroduced as \u200da competitor to Twitter, has faced criticism for\u2062 censoring conservatives on the platform since its launch last month.<\/p>\n<p>The platform initially gained tens\u200b of millions of cross-platform \u2063users who were automatically given\u2062 accounts if they had an\u2063 Instagram \u200caccount. However, its\u2063 daily traffic has \u200dsignificantly declined since then, according to Market Watch.<\/p>\n<p>In a podcast interview with Joe Rogan last summer, Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook had censored users on behalf of the FBI.\u200d The company also prevented the sharing\u2062 of news about the contents of Hunter Biden&#8217;s abandoned laptop\u200d prior to the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen how Meta will respond to the coalition&#8217;s request for increased censorship on its \u2063platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democratic-groups-citing-election-disinformation-already-pressuring-zuckerberg-censorship-meta-platforms\/\">Democratic Groups Citing Election &#8216;Disinformation&#8217; Already Pressuring Zuckerberg for Censorship on Meta Platforms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A left-leaning coalition has asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to censor &#8220;disinformation&#8221; on the company&#8217;s platforms before the 2024 elections. They believe Meta&#8217;s Threads platform should swiftly implement policies to eliminate speech conflicting with official government positions on various matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":1986783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}