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Make
sure you join Avaaz - and EC Vice President Věra
Jourová - for our big disinformation online
conference this Thursday at 2.30pm
CET. Some of the
biggest names in Tech will discuss how Europe
can create a ‘Paris Agreement for
Disinformation’ to effectively protect our
democracies and users’ rights on social
media. The EU has just tabled some of the
most advanced proposals to fight disinformation,
but Big Tech is ready to try to water it down.
It’s key that EU decision makers feel a mass of
eyes on them and their actions going forward!
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 Disinformation
threatens humanity’s ability to tackle the key
issues of our time. Climate change, pandemics,
human rights, biodiversity, and helping expand
democracy across the world all require
protecting our communities against
disinformation designed to polarize us and
silence the facts. As anti-democratic
governments and other actors weaponize social
media to harm us, it is on us to protect freedom
of expression and our information ecosystem.
Clear, transparent regulations are needed now
more than ever. This conference is designed for
us to find the best ways to do that. One
of our most recent
reports has shown how, one year after the
start of the pandemic, Facebook is still failing
to protect Europeans from dangerous
COVID-related disinformation ( Politico,
Vice,
Forbes,
Le
Figaro, El
País, Repubblica,
Estadão).
Our work has contributed to convince the EU of
the need for more ambitious action.
But now we need
to make sure that these proposals are not
watered down. The Avaaz Webinar on Thursday will
show them that citizens are watching!
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Speakers
to the event will include:
- EU Vice President
Commissioner Věra Jourová
- Twitter Vice President
for Public Policy EMEA Sinead McSweeney
- European Parliament DSA
Rapporteur Christel Schaldemose
- Facebook Head of EU
Affairs Aura Salla
- Investigative
Journalist and Real Facebook Oversight Board
Founder Carole Cadwalladr
- And speakers from the
Center for Countering Digital Hate, EU
DisinfoLab, Avaaz, EU Commission, European
Digital Media Observatory, European Regulators
Group for Audiovisual Media Services and the
National Association of Public Health Doctors
(Portugal)
See you online on
Thursday! Luca, Sarah, Camille, Andy,
Nadia, Fadi, Sam, Adela and the Avaaz
team PS: For the last three years Avaaz
has been one of the leading organizations in
the EU and around
the world, reporting on disinformation and
its
scale, commissioning
polls on its harmful effects, evaluating
platforms' efforts to manage it, and
identifying the
failures of a variety of platforms,
including Facebook,
YouTube
and WhatsApp.
Our work has been recently covered by The
New York Times, the BBC,
The
Washington Post, and others!
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