Mark
Zuckerberg is terrified. New laws being considered in Washington would force him
to tell the truth about Facebook’s malign impact on our lives and our
democracies. Talks are stalled but our contacts in Congress tell us that a
clarion call from President Biden would clear the way for tough rules on tech
transparency. Mark has hired a massive army of corporate lobbyists but our
combined voices are stronger. Join us! Tell President Biden that it’s time
for truth from the tech giants! Dear friends, Mark Zuckerberg is scared.He calls
himself a “wartime CEO” and he’s hired one of the biggest armies of corporate
lobbyists that Washington has ever seen.‘Zuck’ is terrified that new laws will
finally force him to tell the truth about how Facebook manipulates us, invades
our privacy, misuses our data, and has willingly become a weapon of the far
right.Lawmakers in the US have introduced almost a dozen different bills
designed to do just that -- force Facebook and other platforms to come clean
about how harmful their products can be. But right now those bills are stalled,
mired in a morass of competing political priorities.Mark and his army of
lobbyists know that all they have to do is wait. In just a few months, Congress
will slow to a crawl for the 2022 campaign season and the bills will wither
away. We’ve talked to friends in dozens of lawmakers’ offices and we keep
hearing the same thing: only a strong call from President Biden can clear a path
for tough transparency rules for big tech. Join us and we’ll hand-deliver
our combined voices directly to the White House:
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Mark
Zuckerberg is terrified. New laws being
considered in Washington would force him
to tell the truth about Facebook’s malign
impact on our lives and our
democracies. Talks are stalled but our contacts
in Congress tell us that a clarion call
from President Biden would clear the way for
tough rules on tech transparency.
Mark has hired a massive army of
corporate lobbyists but our combined voices are
stronger. Join us! Tell President Biden
that it’s time for truth from the tech giants!
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Mark
Zuckerberg is scared.
He calls
himself a “wartime CEO” and he’s hired one of
the biggest armies of corporate lobbyists that
Washington has ever seen.
‘Zuck’ is
terrified that new laws will finally
force him to tell the truth about how Facebook
manipulates us, invades our privacy,
misuses our data, and has willingly become a
weapon of the far right.
Lawmakers in the
US have introduced almost a dozen different
bills designed to do just that -- force
Facebook and other platforms to come clean about
how harmful their products can be. But
right now those bills are stalled, mired in a
morass of competing political
priorities.
Mark and his army of
lobbyists know that all they have to do is wait.
In just a few months, Congress will slow to a
crawl for the 2022 campaign season and the bills
will wither away. We’ve talked to friends in
dozens of lawmakers’ offices and we keep hearing
the same thing: only a strong call from
President Biden can clear a path for tough
transparency rules for big tech.
Join us and we’ll hand-deliver our combined
voices directly to the White
House:
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To
protect their people, governments across the
world have brought every major new industry in
modern history under regulation -- even when it
seemed impossible. Tobacco. Telephones.
Television. Railroads. Radio. Automobiles.
Airlines. For the sake of our people,
our democracies, and our planet, the time has
come to rein in big tech. The EU
is making progress but the US, big tech’s home
and headquarters, has fallen far
behind.
President Biden can, and
must, demand transparency from the tech
giants.
Critics will say that
protecting free speech and fostering innovation
means you can’t force Facebook and other social
media companies to disclose their dirty secrets.
But Avaaz’s consistent calls for
tech transparency have been echoed by
experts and endorsed by some of
the world’s foremost defenders of free
expression. Lawmakers in the US are
excited. But Congress is less
likely to move without a clear signal from the
White House. That's where we can make a
difference.
We must regulate social
media to preserve our societies, our mental
health and our families. And one man has the
power to be the hero the world needs and rise up
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over the world. We’ve unveiled
disinformation networks that reached billions of
views, attacking elections in Brazil, the EU,
and the U.S. We’ve documented hate speech and
extremism in India, shown how Facebook helped
make the invasion of the US Capitol possible,
and blown the whistle on the platforms’
inability to contain disinformation about
COVID-19. We’ve pushed reluctant social media
platforms to adopt partial measures, but only
regulation will get us the rest of the way.
Let’s win this together!
With hope and
determination,
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Luis, Christoph and the whole Avaaz team
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