SIGN THE PETITION: Apple and CEO Tim Cook must drop Trump’s new social media app!
Dear fellow MoveOn member,
This is not good. News broke last week that Trump, who is banned from Facebook and Twitter for inciting the deadly white supremacist-led January 6 insurrection on social media, is launching a new social media app…1 And Apple is giving it, and Trump, a platform on its App Store. It is indefensible.
This isn’t the first time Apple has been in the hot seat: Ten years ago, after receiving pressure from the public, Apple took down a terrible, anti-LGBTQ+ app that dehumanized the LGBTQ+ community and promoted the use of conversion therapy.2
This just shows how much power we have when we come together against hate and lies. Apple can and must do the right thing.
As a longtime consumer of Apple products myself, I must say that my faith in Apple is weakened knowing that it is giving a platform to Trump.
Especially after Trump knowingly downplayed the threat of COVID-19, and his lies and negligence led to the death of hundreds of thousands across the country, after his lies about the election resulted in a deadly insurrection and in Republican state legislatures introducing voter suppression legislation in 48 states across the country. All of these lies were spread all over social media and have caused so much harm, especially to BIPOC, disabled people, and working people. Enough.
Other tech companies have done the right thing and stopped Trump from spreading lies on its platforms. Now, Apple must follow suit instead of being an outlet for racism, sexism, misogyny, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, homophobia and transphobia, or any other form of hate.
Apple: We are watching you and expect you to do the right thing.
Thanks!
–Matthew Witten
Sources:
1. "What we know so far about Trump's planned social media platform," NPR, October 21, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/159389?t=18&akid=309120%2E40999114%2EfTUyqb
2. "Apple Pulls Exodus Group’s ‘Gay-Cure’ App From iTunes Store," CBS New York, March 23, 2011
https://act.moveon.org/go/159390?t=20&akid=309120%2E40999114%2EfTUyqb
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