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Friend,

Disinformation and hate about COVID-19, our democracy and each other
continues to spread across social-media platforms — while companies
continue to profit. Without any transparency and accountability, companies
like Facebook will continue to boost deceitful and hateful content because
it gets the most clicks and views around the world. [ [link removed] ]Demand real
transparency from Facebook, Nextdoor, Twitter and YouTube about how they
moderate languages other than English.

Disinformation is bad enough in English, Friend, but it’s even
worse in non-English languages, particularly Spanish, Portuguese and
Italian. In fact, thanks to the bravery of Facebook whistleblower Frances
Haugen, we now know that 86% of spending to combat disinformation on
Facebook is spent on English-language content — even though only 9% of the
platform’s users speak English.

There’s a clear disparity between how platforms moderate English content
and how they moderate non-English content. That’s why we’re demanding real
transparency and accountability about Big Tech’s content-moderation
practices in non-English languages.

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Facebook and Twitter tout their transparency centers, but the companies
offer no data on their non-English-language content moderation.

YouTube has a community-guidelines enforcement hub that promotes how it
and owner Google disrupt the spread of English-language disinformation but
the hub has no data on disinformation in other languages. Nextdoor proudly
promotes its “inclusive moderation policies” — but it isn’t transparent
about how these policies actually work.

[ [link removed] ]Demand that Facebook, Nextdoor, Twitter and YouTube provide real
transparency about their non-English-language content-moderation practices
— because Big Tech owes us big answers.

Thanks for all that you do —

Rose and the rest of the Free Press Action team
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P.S. Did you know that disinformation and hate in non-English languages is
less likely to be removed from a platform than content in English? There’s
a clear disparity between how companies like Facebook moderate English
content and how they moderate non-English content. [ [link removed] ]Join the fight: Call
for more transparency from Big Tech about their non-English-language
content-moderation practices.