John, we’ll start by sharing the good news: Yesterday, the Facebook Oversight Board announced that they will extend Trump’s ban from their social media platform.
For years, our movement has been putting pressure on social media platforms to ban Trump and address the disinformation crisis in our country – even when people told us it was impossible. But nevertheless, we persisted. Together, we delivered tens of thousands of signatures until Twitter deplatformed Trump and made sure other social media platforms did the same.
We’re proud of the work we’ve done — but it’s clear that Trump isn’t the only one spreading dangerous disinformation online. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ted Cruz, and their fellow colleagues in the Sedition Caucus have all followed Trump’s example and rely on spreading lies through social media to rally their supporter base.
That’s why Women’s March is proud to be one of the only organizations in existence that trains volunteers how to combat disinformation online. From false election claims, to vaccine disinformation — our team has been busy developing an organizing program to address these challenges.
There are very few organizations — especially led by women — that do work like this because it takes significant funds, planning, and resources to run a disinformation training program. We can’t afford to slow down on this work: Will you chip in $3 or anything you can to fund our Digital Defenders program so we can continue fighting back against disinformation online?
The online disinformation crisis poses a direct threat to our democracy and our ability to keep pushing forward in our progressive agenda.
The false narratives that Trump and his friends in Congress promote online have real and dangerous consequences. This was made clear when Trump and his supporters generated widespread misinformation about the 2020 election results — leading up to an attack on the Capitol on January 6.
In addition, over the past years, Women’s Marchers have been increasingly concerned about losing their loved ones to Q-Anon or other conspiracy communities. They wish they had known how to talk to them with love, compassion, and grace before they lost them for good. We know that there is no magical solution or quick algorithm for deprogramming our peers, but we do know that we have to intervene before there is more grief and violence.
Since 2019, our Digital Defenders program has trained over 1,500 activists in debunking dis/misinformation through peer-to-peer interactions on social media. Our trainings have covered issues that are most plagued by deliberately planted falsehoods and myths online: immigration, abortion, climate, COVID-19, protests, and the 2020 election.
Digital Defenders are Women’s Marchers like you. Together, we’re making sure this disinformation crisis doesn’t go unanswered and that social media companies are held accountable for giving a platform to failed leaders like Trump. That’s why today we’re asking our grassroots supporters to help us raise the money we need to grow our Digital Defenders program.
Keep fighting,
Women’s March
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