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To: Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube
Tell YouTube: Stop election denialism
YouTube just made a really bad decision. It will allow content that includes election denialism and disinformation about the 2020 elections. This move comes as more 2024 candidates (including Trump) engage in public events which may be hosted on the platform.
Lies about the 2020 election led to a massive wave of political violence, threats, and harassment directed toward election officials and volunteer poll workers—the very people who are ensuring our elections run smoothly.
But this decision to roll back a commonsense policy against election lies shows that social media platforms like YouTube failed to learn from the 2020 elections—and are woefully unprepared to stop election deniers and disinformation.
Sign the petition telling YouTube to strengthen their policies against election lies—not roll them back.
Lies about the 2020 election led to a massive wave of political violence, threats, and harassment directed toward election officials and volunteer poll workers—the very people who are ensuring our elections run smoothly.
But this decision to roll back a commonsense policy against election lies shows that social media platforms like YouTube failed to learn from the 2020 elections—and are woefully unprepared to stop election deniers and disinformation.
Sign the petition telling YouTube to strengthen their policies against election lies—not roll them back.
Why is this important?
It’s not just YouTube. The Social Media Monitoring team at Common Cause spends every Election Day tracking blatant attempts to convince people their votes don't count or that we can't trust election officials.
But the response we’ve received hasn’t been enough. We, along with 120 other groups, called on social media platforms to make specific policy changes to help moderate election lies before the 2022 elections. Instead, these platforms continued allowing harmful content to spread—to say nothing of right-wing sites like Gab and Parler that are designed to spread disinformation.
Social media platforms should not put profit over corporate responsibility and democracy itself. Extremist groups have exploited the corporate greed and reluctance by the platforms to moderate content allowing disinformation and hate speech to spread. This allows marginalized voices to be silenced while polarizing voices, and those advocating violence are amplified exponentially.
We must send a clear message that consumers—and our democracy—deserve better from our social media platforms.
But the response we’ve received hasn’t been enough. We, along with 120 other groups, called on social media platforms to make specific policy changes to help moderate election lies before the 2022 elections. Instead, these platforms continued allowing harmful content to spread—to say nothing of right-wing sites like Gab and Parler that are designed to spread disinformation.
Social media platforms should not put profit over corporate responsibility and democracy itself. Extremist groups have exploited the corporate greed and reluctance by the platforms to moderate content allowing disinformation and hate speech to spread. This allows marginalized voices to be silenced while polarizing voices, and those advocating violence are amplified exponentially.
We must send a clear message that consumers—and our democracy—deserve better from our social media platforms.