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Dear
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Enough
is enough! Last week, Donald Trump
incited a crowd of angry supporters to "fight
like hell", and head to the US Capitol. And so
they did -- storming Congress to
overturn the election results, and stop Joe
Biden becoming the new President. 5 people were
killed. |
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For
the sake of democracy in the US, and worldwide,
he must go -- and with him the
dangerous conditions that have allowed him and
his followers to poison public debate with an
avalanche of lies and hatred. This includes the
extraordinary megaphone that social platforms
have given them to spread his toxic
politics. |
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President-elect
Joe Biden knows he must urgently act to protect
democracy. Let's welcome him with a
massive global mandate to fix social
media, and help un-Trump American
politics -- and when we pass 1 million
voices, Avaaz will publish our message through
printing ads in major US papers: |
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Dear Mr Biden, |
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Today
we celebrate the courage and resilience
of all Americans who have defeated
Donald Trump's politics of fear, hate-mongering,
and bigotry. |
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We
are relieved that Trump is leaving
office. But with him much more has to
go -- from the violence he's encouraged, to his
denigration of women, Mexicans, Muslims, and
many more, to the spreading of lies and hatred
that threaten much of what we care about.
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Now
we count on you, Mr Biden, to un-Trump
American politics, and rejoin global efforts to
defend our rights and ideals from the dark
threat of fascism. |
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Extremists
are using social platforms to propel and
weaponize distrust, and conspiracies, and attack
the very heart of our democracies.
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It's
time to ensure social media promotes
genuine public debate that serves democracy, and
not the needs of authoritarian leaders and their
allies. Act now to regulate Internet platforms
before it's too lateThis must be stopped before
it's too late. |
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Sincerely,
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Social
media isn’t the only reason that have stoked
protests and riots in the US, and division
across the world. But it's giving extremist,
anti-democratic groups a powerful megaphone,
accelerating the spread of their lies and hatred
among millions of people - and causing a serious
risk to our societies and
democracies. |
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Now
it's on us to ensure that our governments step
up, to protect all of us from this unprecedented
threat. |
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With
hope, |
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Chris,
Spyro, Antonia, Francesco, Huitheng, Luis, Raul,
and the entire Avaaz team |
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