Tell Facebook: Flip the Switch on Hate and Lies!

Facebook should create a "circuit breaker" to prevent dangerous disinformation and incitements to violence from ever reaching a mass audience.

By the time millions of people have shared false information, it's already too late.

A simple circuit breaker could have stopped disinformation about the pandemic and about the 2020 elections from reaching millions of people.

Disinformation and incitements to violence are nothing new. What is new is online platforms that spread controversial content at lightning speed, before anyone's had a chance to check it for dangerous disinformation or incitement to hatred and violence.

That's how the verifiably false Plandemic video spread to more than 8 million people in one week before social media companies took it down.

Circuit breakers are used in the stock exchange to pause trading to assimilate new information and help traders make informed choices during periods of high volatility. Social media circuit breaking would work the same way, pausing the most high volume posts for fact-checking before they reach millions of people.

Facebook can and should flip the switch!

As Facebook users, we demand the company enact a circuit breaker policy to stem the flow of hate and lies!

Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash

Update #12 years ago
Watch Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's interview on 60 Minutes:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-misinformation-public-60-minutes-2021-10-03/
Then tell Facebook it's time to fire Mark Zuckerberg: https://takeaction.salsalabs.org/fire-zuck/
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