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Congresswoman Dingell to Facebook: Eradicate Anti-Muslim Content On Your Platform
Yubanet ^ | 12/16/2020 | Office of Congresswoman Debbie Dingell

Posted on 12/19/2020 2:00:20 AM PST by xomething

WASHINGTON, D.C. December 15, 2020 – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) today urged immediate action from Facebook to eradicate anti-Muslim bigotry from the platform and demanded Mark Zuckerberg implement six measures to combat bigoted content. In a letter signed by 29 colleagues, Dingell cited instances of anti-Muslim content on Facebook and recent reports showing the role of the platform in inciting violence against the Muslim community.

“Facebook cannot celebrate the success of its platform, while ignoring its role in elevating the dangerous, deadly content targeting Muslim people,” said Congresswoman Dingell. “In Christchurch, New Zealand, a terrorist attack that stole the lives of fifty-one Muslims worshipping in their mosque was streamed live on Facebook around the world. But in the ensuing weeks and months, Facebook failed to offer a single policy intentionally designed to eradicate hateful, anti-Muslim content. Nearly two years later, it’s time for Facebook to demonstrate that this company recognizes the life and death consequences of their lack of action.”

In her letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Dingell asked for Facebook to implement the following measures:

  1. Form a working group comprised of senior staff focused on anti-Muslim bigotry issues and responsible for coordinating work within the company to address hate groups, tropes, bigoted content, and anti-discrimination training.

  2. Enforce your hate content and hate group policies in a way that ensures militias and white supremacists cannot use your event and group pages to terrorize targeted communities.

  3. Committing to an independent third-party review of the company’s role in enabling anti-Muslim violence, genocide and internment.

  4. Strive towards and commit to a 100 percent proactive detection and removal of anti-Muslim content and all other forms of hate before it is even seen.

  5. Commit to regular anti-discrimination training for your entire staff world-wide

  6. Training key staff on civil rights issues and common words, phrases, tropes or visuals used by hate actors to dehumanize and demonize Muslims.

“We thank Congresswoman Dingell and her colleagues for holding Facebook accountable for the harm it has inflicted on American Muslims here and Muslims abroad,” said Scott Simpson, Public Advocacy Director of Muslim Advocates. “Just last week, we learned that not only did the Christchurch shooter use Facebook to livestream his slaughter, he also was a member of multiple anti-Muslim hate groups on the platform. Anti-Muslim hate has consequences and Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg must finally take action to stop it from proliferating on their platform.”

Dingell’s letter was signed by Debbie Dingell, Rashida Tlaib, André Carson. Carolyn B. Maloney, Ilhan Omar, Jahana Hayes, Max Rose, Barbara Lee, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Bobby L. Rush, Daniel T. Kildee, Jared Huffman, Kathy Castor, Gwen S. Moore, Lauren Underwood, Jan Schakowsky, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mark Pocan, Grace Meng, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Darren Soto, Donald S. Beyer Jr., James P. McGovern, Peter Welch, Jamie Raskin, Pramila Jayapal, Yvette D. Clarke, Raúl M. Grijalva, Earl Blumenauer, and Nydia M. Velázquez. Additionally, her letter has received the support of the following organizations: CODEPINK, Common Defense, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Islamic Networks Group, Jetpac, Jewish Voice for Peace Action, Justice for Muslims Collective, MomsRising, National Iranian American Council, Peace Action, Progressive Democrats of America, Project South, ReThinking Foreign Policy, and National Network for Arab American Communities.

To read the full letter, please click here.


TOPICS: Current Events; Islam
KEYWORDS: aclumia; antichristian; bot; censorship; debbiedingbat; debbiedingell; dingell; doublestandard; firstamendment; freespeech; idontcair; islam; postandrun; usa
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1 posted on 12/19/2020 2:00:20 AM PST by xomething
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To: xomething

No to sharia loving pansies!!


2 posted on 12/19/2020 2:10:58 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Terry L Smith

And the topic before this one was about 11 killed by the brain washed low IQ goat molesters she thinks are saints.

Irony is God’s way of saying you cannot fix stupid.

This woman and her cohorts fit the mould.


3 posted on 12/19/2020 2:28:49 AM PST by Swiffer_Ralf (Orig. Eureka_Lead)
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To: xomething

So, no posting the truth about Islam?


4 posted on 12/19/2020 2:29:17 AM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: upchuck

Ping


5 posted on 12/19/2020 2:30:03 AM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: xomething

IOW, any Jewish or Christian content, which the left considers by default anti-muslim.


6 posted on 12/19/2020 2:46:08 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: Swiffer_Ralf

Muslims complain about being attacked and targeted?

Reap what you sow.


7 posted on 12/19/2020 2:48:44 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: xomething

a terrorist attack that stole the lives of fifty-one Muslims worshipping in their mosque was streamed live on Facebook around the world. But in the ensuing weeks and months,

Yeah?

How about the terrorist attack in NY by the muslim scum that stole the lives of 3,000 Americans?
FY&STFU.

{But of course FB will step all over themselves rushing to comply...]


8 posted on 12/19/2020 3:24:02 AM PST by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: xomething
Eliminate anti-anything and everything on Facebook.

That should shut them down except for cat pictures . . .

9 posted on 12/19/2020 3:34:35 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: xomething

But Facebook can keep the hateful, untrue anti Trump- and anti-Trump-supporter policies.

They’re just fine.


10 posted on 12/19/2020 3:48:51 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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To: xomething

She’s a prime example of why congressional seats should not be hereditary.


11 posted on 12/19/2020 3:52:18 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: xomething

Eradicate all moslum. There, fixed it.


12 posted on 12/19/2020 3:53:04 AM PST by exnavy
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To: xomething

Facebook and any other propaganda outlet can gussie up to islam all they want,
I will forever call it a gutter murderous cult.


13 posted on 12/19/2020 3:57:44 AM PST by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe )
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To: xomething

1400 years / 700 MILLION innocent people MURDERED by muslim extremists!...... Don’t cover it up!


14 posted on 12/19/2020 4:01:05 AM PST by high info voter
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To: xomething

What were her voters thinking?


15 posted on 12/19/2020 4:02:40 AM PST by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: xomething

Forgot to mention all the other “oppressed” groups...black, Hispanic, minority, gay, trans-whatever, etc. He DOESN’T want that content eradicated?? Talk about discrimination!!


16 posted on 12/19/2020 4:03:06 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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To: xomething

So much for the 1st amendment.


17 posted on 12/19/2020 5:06:37 AM PST by DownInFlames (Ga)
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To: xomething

Like
http://peacebyjesus.net/JESUS.Vs.Muhammad.html
http://peacebyjesus.net/PactOfUmar.html
But anti-Christian content sees no censure?


18 posted on 12/19/2020 5:10:20 AM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: xomething

The left is taking the subservience of the media as an entitlement. And when the media complains and raises the talisman of the first amendment, they will realize that tyranny has no friends. The role they accepted voluntarily will become their prison, and it will be too late to do anything about it.


19 posted on 12/19/2020 5:23:25 AM PST by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.dirt road.)
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To: daniel1212

“Are you now or have you ever been a conservative” isn’t rhetorical anymore.


20 posted on 12/19/2020 5:26:18 AM PST by combat_boots (Hi God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust! )
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