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Margaret Redus's avatar

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Monica O'Malley's avatar

Hi all and Hi Laurie, I wrote a letter I was hoping you could get behind and promote on your email to everyone. If you like this idea could you please set it up for distribution? Here it is:

I sent it yesterday directly to termsofservice@meta.com

Letter headline:

Why aren't you doing MORE to stop the misogynistic hate speech and crimes that your group chatrooms exacerbate?

We are contacting you as a group of concerned parents and everyday folks who have learned you are doing very little to stop these comments. In fact, your algorithms cause misogynistic comments, threats and ideas to actually garner MORE attention and do even MORE repetitive psychological and sometimes physical harm to the victims by creating steady repetitive message amplification showing a tacit acceptance of comments that encourage the violence and murder of women and girls.

Add onto that the increased amount of rape culture comments that go hand in hand with those types

of misogynistic comments. Your allow your platform to be used as the fertile ground in which the seeds of misogyny, rape, domestic violence and murder of girls and women are flourishing and gaining more ground every day.

Did you know that statistically in most major cities in the United States while gun assaults and homicide rates have gone down over the past year, rapes have increased significantly, in some areas as much as 11% over this same past year?

It is astounding that you fail to respond adequately to as much as 90% of the complaints about misogynistic comments that are brought to your attention by the victims!! Please see the attached pic of documentation regarding this.

Who are you defending? Who do you stand for? Do you have any conscience whatsoever about how you are affecting the mental and physical well being of the millions of girls and women just attempting to use your platform

to enjoy being part of the social world like everyone else?

We will be selling our stock in your company and encouraging larger institutional investors to do the same.

We are sick of witnessing your apathy (and your large net profit from it) and we don't want that blood on our hands.

Divest your shares of Meta/Instagram now will be the general point of the public awareness campaign.

Please advise us as to what actions, if any , you are taking that will seriously stop this horrific increase in rape of women and girls that is directly correlating with the increased algorithmic repeated and amplified attention to misogynistic speech on your forums.

Thank you.

John Kumm's avatar

Elected Republican politicians and techno/kleptocrats know that the culture war distractions and the structurally un-democratic electoral system will only go so far to keep them and their corrupt practices in place. They have got to have disenfranchisement based on a completely fabricated premise.

Desiree Carter's avatar

Trump is sooooo afraid of losing! Losing in ANY capacity over ANYTHING, just absolutely kills him. He absolutely LOVES being president. He thinks he’s so damned important, so well liked and even loved, and the tremendous power he feels, will leave him empty should he not run for a third term with the very real probability he won’t win! Losing is not in Trump’s vocabulary and he will do WHATEVER he has to, to win! And this includes the SAVE Act and the suppression in the midterms is just the first step in his journey in not LOSING the WH!!

Suppressing the rights of women and men of color, any fucking color, is of utmost importance to him. Suppressing the vote of ANY WOMAN by requiring asinine rules to prove who you say you are before, during, and/or after a marriage, is in the range of what, 17 million plus, and that’s a huge number of votes from Democrats, Independents, and others whom he hopes to quash!

As a woman who kept her ex husband’s last name, for the kids and a few other reasons, I will do whatever I have to, to vote. I’ve voted against dickwits like him and the jerks in the GOP my entire life and I’m NOT stopping now!!!

So you keep cheating Trump, in any way you possibly can…we know you very well now and this ain’t slowing any of us down!!

Jamie Fields's avatar

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WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE! PLEASE RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES AND READ THE NAMES OUT LOUD! PLEASE!

Amy's avatar

Among the corruption & chaos, please take a moment to

Call Senators Today to protect our voting rights:

Tell them to Vote 'No' on the SAVE Act!

(202) 224-3121

The Save Act is Not primarily a voter ID law; it is a poll tax & will disproportionately suppress votes (women, minorities, disabled, elderly, youth) & cause more harms.

Sensitive voter information is required to go through the Department of Homeland Security in one version of the bill. The potential for abuse would be staggering under this admin.

Restrictions on mail in voting would be horrendous for those who need it - entire states currently primarily use mail in voting!

Disruptions from slow processing of passports (it can take months), plus high cost & inconvenience.

Penalties would also be insane for poll workers & voter registration workers for innocent mistakes...

Elijah’s Shadow's avatar

Another suppression tactic deployed by Trump and Republicans to disenfranchise voters,because they know they can’t win on their merits or lack there of.

David Maceira's avatar

This will likely backfire. As many older voters cannot afford to purchase a passport. And women with names that are different from their birth certificate will also be hurt.

This is voter suppression.

Marilyn Moser's avatar

Thank you for your persistence in publishing the news!

TonyCastaneda's avatar

JUST ANOTHER REPUBLICAN GRIFT.WANT WE THE PEOPLE TO PAY TO VOTE.PASSPORTS ARE FOR PEOPLE WHO COME N LIVE THE USA. REAL ID.ALREADY COVERS ALL PAPERS WE THE PEOPLE ARE LEGAL STATUS.GUESS THEY AINT SELLING ENOUGH PASSPORTS.

Brenda's avatar

Repeat, repeat and repeat! People pay attention! Get your papers in order Just in case! Fuck Truck, fuck Ice!