{"id":8027,"date":"2021-10-28T09:24:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T13:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/amidst-facebook-papers-scandal-rampant-election-disinformation-common-cause-outlines-fixes-in-new-report\/"},"modified":"2021-10-28T09:24:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T13:24:51","slug":"amidst-facebook-papers-scandal-rampant-election-disinformation-common-cause-outlines-fixes-in-new-report","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/press\/amidst-facebook-papers-scandal-rampant-election-disinformation-common-cause-outlines-fixes-in-new-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Amidst Facebook Papers Scandal & Rampant Election Disinformation, Common Cause Outlines Fixes in New Report"},"template":"","class_list":["post-8027","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"With The Facebook Papers adding daily to the evidence of the inability and unwillingness of social media giants to combat disinformation and other harmful content, Common Cause today released an extensive report on election disinformation, including a comprehensive set of reforms needed to curb this huge and growing problem and protect our right to vote in elections next week, next year, and beyond. Based on more than 15,000 hours monitoring social media in the 2020 election cycle, together with legal and policy expertise, \u201cAs a Matter of Fact: The Harms Caused by Election Disinformation\u201d details the seriousness and scale of the threat, current applicable state and federal laws, and the woefully inadequate and inconsistent civic integrity policies of the social media giants. The report concludes with a sweeping series of reform recommendations to better enable us to fight back against election disinformation.","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7855}"],"related_issues":[110,133,134,136,137,169,2065,2066,2082],"related_work":false,"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"With The Facebook Papers adding daily to the evidence of the inability and unwillingness of social media giants to combat disinformation and other harmful content, Common Cause today released an extensive report on election disinformation, including a comprehensive set of reforms needed to curb this huge and growing problem and protect our right to vote in elections next week, next year, and beyond. Based on more than 15,000 hours monitoring social media in the 2020 election cycle, together with legal and policy expertise, \u201cDe hecho: los da\u00f1os causados por la desinformaci\u00f3n electoral<\/a>\u201d details the seriousness and scale of the threat, current applicable state and federal laws, and the woefully inadequate and inconsistent civic integrity policies of the social media giants. The report concludes with a sweeping series of reform recommendations to better enable us to fight back against election disinformation.\r\n\r\n\"In America, we expect and deserve clean elections but Facebook and other social media giants have largely failed in their duty to identify and remove election disinformation from their platforms. It is time for more regulation and outside oversight before these companies allow still more damage to be done to Americans\u2019 faith in our elections,\u201d dicho<\/strong> Karen Hobert Flynn, presidenta de Causa Com\u00fan<\/strong>. \u201cThe social media companies are not the only culprits here, but they have to varying degrees stood by while The Big Lie has gained momentum on their platforms. Today, roughly 1 in 3 Americans\u2014and nearly two-thirds of Republicans\u2014wrongly believe<\/a> the 2020 election was \u2018rigged and stolen from Trump.\u2019 Those lies, which flourished on social media, ultimately fueled the January 6<\/a> insurrection.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe report provides an overview of election disinformation, explaining what it is, how it\u2019s being spread, and who is spreading it. It identifies the most common forms of election disinformation to include communications providing the wrong election date, bogus election rules, voter intimidation, untrue claims about election integrity or security, and untrue claims post-election about results. It finds most common vehicles for disseminating disinformation include social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, junk websites, mainstream media like Fox News, search engines like Google, as well as email, text messages, and robocalls.\r\n\r\n\"Common Cause staff, disinformation analysts, and thousands of volunteers have been on the front lines fighting election disinformation and we have witnessed firsthand its explosion on social media in recent years,\u201d dicho<\/strong> Jesse Littlewood, Common Cause Vice President for Campaigns<\/strong>. \u201cWe have also seen and documented<\/a> the social media companies\u2019 failures in their public commitment to prevent the spread of disinformation about elections \u2013 failures echoed<\/a> by Facebook whistleblower\u00a0Frances Haugen. The current state of affairs is nothing short of dangerous and the time is now for comprehensive reforms.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe report goes on to detail current federal and state laws regulating election disinformation\u2014voting rights, campaign finance, communications, consumer protection, media literacy, and privacy laws\u2014and the shortcomings of current laws. It then examines the civic integrity policies of some of the largest social media companies, the policies Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have put in place to address abuses of their platforms for the dissemination of election disinformation. Those policies, the report shows, have proven insufficient and ineffective in combatting the very serious threat of election disinformation.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe time to act is now before any more damage is done and our actions must be sweeping in order to combat the dire threat of election disinformation,\u201d said Yosef Getachew, Common Cause Media and Democracy Program Director.<\/strong> \u201cThe reforms must include changes to state and federal laws encompassing voting rights, campaign finance, privacy, media, as well reforms to federal and state executive and regulatory agencies. Social media companies must also take additional steps to strengthen their civic integrity policies and close loopholes that allow bad actors to spread harmful content.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe report\u2019s final section and primary focus is a series of state, federal and corporate reforms to help stem the flow of election disinformation that is undermining Americans' faith in the nation\u2019s elections. Reform recommendations detailed in the report include the following.\r\n\r\nLas empresas de redes sociales deben fortalecer sus pol\u00edticas para combatir el contenido dise\u00f1ado para socavar nuestra democracia<\/strong>, including by providing users with authoritative information regarding voting and elections, reducing the spread and amplification of election disinformation, and providing greater transparency concerning their content moderation policies and practices.\r\n\r\nCongress and state legislatures should amend voting rights laws to explicitly Prohibir la difusi\u00f3n intencional de informaci\u00f3n falsa sobre la hora, el lugar o la forma de las elecciones. <\/strong>or the qualifications or restrictions on voter eligibility, with the intent to impede voting.\r\n\r\nCongress and state legislatures should Actualizar las leyes de divulgaci\u00f3n de financiaci\u00f3n de campa\u00f1as para la era digital<\/strong>, para incluir "<\/strong>paid for by\u201d disclaimers on digital advertising, and effective provisions shining a light on money transferred between groups to evade disclosure.\r\n\r\nCongress and state legislatures should Aprobar una legislaci\u00f3n integral sobre privacidad de datos <\/strong>to protect consumers from the abusive collection, use, and sharing of personal data.\r\n\r\nCongress should Promulgar leyes que fortalezcan los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n locales <\/strong>and protecting public access to high-quality information about government, public safety, public health, economic development, and local culture.\r\n\r\nCongress should Aprobar una legislaci\u00f3n para proteger el acceso de los investigadores y periodistas de control a los datos de las redes sociales<\/strong>, enabling researchers to study social media platform practices without fear of interference or retaliation from social media companies.\r\n\r\nCongress should Aprobar legislaci\u00f3n para prohibir los algoritmos discriminatorios de las plataformas en l\u00ednea <\/strong>y crear una mayor transparencia sobre c\u00f3mo funcionan estos algoritmos.\r\n\r\nLa Casa Blanca y los gobernadores de los estados de todo el pa\u00eds deben desempe\u00f1ar un papel de liderazgo en la lucha contra la desinformaci\u00f3n electoral.<\/strong>, including by issuing executive orders directing agencies with enforcement, rule-making, and investigatory authorities to use these capabilities in combating election disinformation.\r\n\r\nTo read the \u201cAs a Matter of Fact: The Harms Caused by Election Disinformation\u201d report, haga clic aqu\u00ed<\/a>."}}]},"yoast_head":"\nAmidst Facebook Papers Scandal & Rampant Election Disinformation, Common Cause Outlines Fixes in New Report - 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