Selena Gomez: Pop star sees Facebook and Twitter as complicit

Selena Gomez
Pop star sees Facebook and Twitter as complicit

Selena Gomez continues to fight hatred on Facebook and Twitter.

Selena Gomez continues to fight hatred on Facebook and Twitter.

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Selena Gomez spoke up on Twitter after the Capitol protests. The social networks are partly to blame for them.

Selena Gomez (28, "Rare") uses her reach with 64 million Twitter followers and 201 million Instagram subscribers to talk to herself after the riots at the Capitol in Washington D.C. to contact those responsible behind social networks. "Today is the result of allowing people with hatred in their hearts to use platforms that actually bring people together and create communities," she said on Wednesday (January 6th) in a tweet, whose text she also published in an Instagram story.

Then she addressed the people behind the social media platforms and companies with an appeal: "Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google, Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Jack Dorsey, Sundar Pichai, Susan Wojcicki – you all have the American one People abandoned today and I hope you will fix things in the future. " Donald Trump (74) had temporarily blocked Facebook and Twitter after the riots. Stars like actor Sacha Baron Cohen (49) and communication experts are calling for Trump to be permanently excluded due to his dissemination of misinformation.

Letter to Mark Zuckerberg

Selena Gomez has been fighting hatred and misinformation online for a long time. In September 2020, she wrote a letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (36) because of the upcoming US election. "We have a serious problem. Please block groups and users who are focused on the spread of hate speech, violence and misinformation," she wrote, adding, "There needs to be a fact-checking and research obligation. I hope to hear from you as soon as possible. "

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