American singer and actress Selena Gomez said in an interview that social media is “failing the American people.
The famous American singer and actress Selena Gomez said in a media interview on Saturday, January 16, that social media is “profiting from evil”.
Gomez has been denouncing big tech companies for months. Speaking to the Associated Press shortly after the Jan. 6 incident at the Capitol, she said, “This is about truth versus lies, and Facebook, Instagram and Big Tech have to stop allowing lies to just circulate and pretend to be the truth.”
She added that Facebook continues to allow “dangerous lies about vaccines, COVID and the U.S. election, and that neo-Nazi groups are selling racist products through Instagram.”
She argued that Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google “have failed the American people” and called on them to “fix it in the future.
She told the Associated Press in a Jan. 6 interview that technology companies need to do more than just “minimum standards. She and a number of liberal celebrities have called on tech companies to take other approaches to potentially dangerous content shared on their platforms.
Gomez has focused extensively on social media issues since 2017. When a 12-year-old commented on one of her Instagram posts, “Go kill yourself,” she said, “That was my tipping point” and “I couldn’t handle what I was seeing “.
Many conservatives are also continuing to oppose speech censorship by technology companies, calling on them to change their practices.
In the wake of the Jan. 6 congressional events, Twitter permanently banned the accounts of President Trump, Giuliani’s lawyers and others, while Facebook and Instagram locked President Trump’s account indefinitely. The move came under fire from many Trump supporters.
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