Civil advocacy groups press Big Tech on AI-fueled misinformation
A consortium of civil advocacy groups on Tuesday wrote executives at Google, Meta, Reddit, TikTok, YouTube and the social platform X, requesting “swift action” to reinforce their respective platforms’ safety as global extremism and threats to democracy continue.
The Hill
More than 200 civil advocacy groups urged leading technology companies to increase efforts to combat misinformation fueled by artificial intelligence (AI) ahead of elections across the globe, in a letter published Tuesday.
The groups wrote top executives for popular technology companies, including Google, Meta, Reddit, TikTok, YouTube and the social platform X, requesting “swift action” to reinforce their respective platforms’ safety as global extremism and threats to democracy continue.
The civil advocacy organizations claimed tech companies have retreated from necessary protections such as “content moderation, civil-society oversight tools and trust and safety,” which has made the platforms “less prepared to protect users and democracy in 2024.”
“In 2020, Black people and other people of color, women, and non-English speakers were — and continue to be — disproportionately targeted with online election lies,” the letter said, reported first by The Washington Post.
The groups asked the tech companies to reinstate election integrity policies, increase staffing for enforcement teams in multiple languages and enforce rules against election lies and hate in advertising.
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