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Biden: stop the deadly liars

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To President Biden:

We are deeply concerned that you have yet to adopt a government-wide anti-disinformation strategy to accompany and protect your other, critical policy priorities. Meanwhile, social media giants are allowing false and misleading information, hate, and extremism to spread at scale, threatening progress on COVID-19, climate change, racial justice, hate, and extremism.

While you and your administration position the U.S. to reemerge as a global leader on the critical challenges facing humanity, disinformation targeting your efforts is reaching many millions of Americans online. And the platforms aren’t doing nearly enough.

Until now, giant social media companies have made up their own rules behind closed doors.  That has to stop.  We can no longer count on these companies to regulate themselves and protect democracy. President Biden, in your second 100 days we call on you to adopt a government-wide infrastructure to fight disinformation and, specifically, to: 

Appoint a senior White House official who would be exclusively dedicated to mobilizing a whole-of-government response to disinformation, in close cooperation with Congress, civil society, and federal agencies.

Adopt a National anti-disinformation strategy to launch a whole-of-government approach; 

Call on Congress to pass comprehensive privacy and tech accountability legislation this year. 

Failing to do so will allow disinformation to sabotage the administration’s agenda.


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Biden: stop the deadly liars
I’ve fallen for ‘fake news’ a time or two. Probably most of us have. But tens of millions of Americans have fallen hard, lured by lies into believing debunked conspiracy theories about COVID-19, climate change, and even the integrity of our elections.

Our friends, family, and fellow citizens are dying from disinformation -- even killing because of it. They’re refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, rejecting climate science, and storming our Capitol because they believe the lies and half-truths flooding their feeds.

Social media companies won’t help unless they’re forced to, because dangerous conspiracies and lies are part of their billion-dollar bottom line. President Biden could rein them in, and he’s deciding right now whether to make disinformation a priority for his next 100 days.

Let’s make him hear our voices! Join us now and together we’ll land our call for strong tech regulation directly on Biden’s doorstep. If we get enough signers, we’ll print a custom newspaper headlined with our call and hand-deliver it to the White House.

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