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Selena Gomez continues to call on tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Instagram to take down hate speech and misinformation. Last night, she tagged Facebook and Instagram on Twitter, retweeting a post from the Center for Countering Digital Hate which pointed out Neo-Nazi accounts on both Instagram and Facebook still active and selling merchandise through their platforms.
“Neo-Nazis are selling racist products on Facebook and Instagram,” the CCDH wrote on its Twitter. “Facebook has left these pages online, despite being told about them 3 days ago. @Facebook, please remove this neo-Nazi network in full, now.”
Gomez shared the post on her own Twitter and added, “I’m speechless. @Facebook @Instagram how are you tolerating this hate? There’s still accounts there even though you have been notified!!”
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Gomez has spent the past few months using her own social media platforms to get Google, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube’s attention to take down ads or accounts spreading hate or misinformation. In November, she got a response from Google after she wrote an open letter to them in October asking them to take down ads sharing election and voting misinformation ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
She wrote the following to Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai in a DM, which she shared on her Instagram Story:
Hi Sundar,
Although we have never met, I just learned that Google is making millions of dollars putting ads on websites that spread disinformation about our election.
I’m hoping you are also just finding this out too.
Please shut this down immediately. The fate of our country depends on it.
Thanks,
Selena
Google Ads responded to Gomez in November, writing:
Thank you for reaching out about this, Selena. We agree that there is no place for hate or election misinfo when our platforms are used to run ads and we appreciate anytime potential violations are flagged to us. We have long standing policies to remove ads from articles inciting hate or violence or those that promote demonstrably false claims that could significantly undermine participation or trust in elections. When content violates our policies, we take action, including removing ads from the violating pages and in pervasive situations the sites. When advertisers want to go beyond our policies, we give them tools, like the ones UNICEF used, to ensure that they are in control over their ads running against content that is not suitable for their brand. We allow them to exclude specific websites (http://goo.gle/3pqPC5o) as well as entire topics (http://goo.gle/2Uwiz1j). And we aim to make this process as seamless as possible. See more here → http://goo.gle/2IzxdCL.
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