Selena Gomez told Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg in September about militia groups on the site.this week that, in the wake of the Capitol riots, she was frustrated tech platforms failed to heed warnings.
"Facebook continues to allow dangerous lies about vaccines and COVID and the US election..." she said.Selena Gomez emailed Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg in September 2020 to warn of US militia groups operating on the social network despite a ban., expressing frustration in an interview that tech platforms did not do enough to crack down on extremist speech ahead of the US Capitol riots.
She told the AP: "It isn't about me versus you, one political party versus another. This is about truth versus lies and Facebook, Instagram and big tech companies have to stop allowing lies to just flow and pretend to be the truth. "Facebook continues to allow dangerous lies about vaccines and COVID and the US election, and neo-Nazi groups are selling racist products via Instagram."
According to the AP, Gomez wrote in her September email to Sandberg: "[A] search for a militia group 'Three Percenters' results in dozens of pages, groups and videos focused on people hoping and preparing for civil war, and there are dozens of groups titled 'white lives matter' that are full of hate and lies that might lead to people being hurt or, even worse, killed.
This just in...Alex from wizards of waverly place doing more investigative work than the FBI. 🤦♂️😂🤷♂️
And facebook will not ban people who post anti-Semitism.
FB is a safe space for Nazis. I was just banned today for calling someone flying the Boogaloo flag a “dirtbag insurrectionist”. Yet when I report people who routinely call me an “illegal alien” nothing is done. I wonder why.