Stop Mark Zuckerberg (via MoveOn)

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Got this email - thought I should share it

During each election cycle, MoveOn makes a big bet on a program that we believe will help win the election—combining people power and cutting-edge innovation to meet the political moment. And in 2020, our big bet has turned some members of MoveOn's staff into characters in their very own spy thriller—because this year we are hoping to invest in an ambitious and cutting-edge program to combat disinformation and online voter suppression.

Disinformation is false information deliberately spread in order to influence public opinion.1 Remember the Facebook ads in 2016 that spread the blatant lie that Democrats could vote from home via text message? Or viral fearmongering lies that millions of noncitizens were voting in the election? Or ads from the Trump campaign targeting Black voters in Florida, saying, "Hillary Thinks African Americans Are Super Predators"?2 Those were disinformation campaigns explicitly designed to suppress Democratic voter turnout and help Donald Trump win—and they worked.3

In 2016, Trump ran an unprecedented digital ad campaign that was fueled largely by disinformation.4 And that, coupled with disinformation campaigns from foreign governments like Russia and domestic groups with a vested interest in Trump's victory, helped lead him to victory.

This time around, those campaigns are even more sophisticated—which is why MoveOn is investing big in working to stop in their tracks disinformation campaigns meant to suppress Democratic votes (particularly from young people and people of color) and propel Trump to a second term.

But here's the problem: These disinformation campaigns are primarily spread on social media, and corporations like Facebook have a vested interest in doing nothing to stop them, because these campaigns make hundreds of millions of dollars for the platform.5 That's where we come in.

If we can fully fund our program, our staff of digital sleuths will be tracking disinformation networks online, following the threads to their source, exposing their impact, and demanding that social media platforms like Facebook take them down.

Donation page is : https://milled.com/moveon-org/were-demanding-that-facebook-take-action-to-stop-disinformation-zi8oBYrO63pAUGe5