It is not too late for Big Tech to play their PART to protect people and elections #yearofdemocracy #DoYourPART
P: Protection plans that are situation-specific!
A: Accountability for Big Tech
R: Resources
T: Transparency

Maen Hammad @Eko_MovementReal on real-life impacts of tech platforms’ failures in India: Targeted attacks against journalists, civil society, those opposed to ruling BJP, individual smearing campaigns, instigating violent rhetoric around them.

Maen Hammad of Ekō: Content moderation systems aren’t working. Tech platforms have a huge business model problem when they are incentivized to care about their bottom line mostly. So what we see now is a business model that allows the devastation of democratic processes

It's merely delegating platform duties to civil society.

Kristen Abrahams of Legal Resources Centre re: trusted flagger program: It's not really working just because of the volume of the content. I can’t imagine that any external fact-checking organization will have sufficient capacity to detect and stop the spread of harmful content

Ahead of the May election in South Africa Kristen Abrahams of Legal Resources Centre says disinformation, hate speech and incitement pose threats to democracy and to vulnerable people, including migrants and women

Happening now, be sure to tune in and hear all about the new tech harms witnessed in Q1 and the big civil society call! youtube.com/@DigitalAction…

'Tech platforms have apparently reduced their investments in platform safety and have restricted data access, even as they continue to profit from hate-filled ads.'

Exclusive: Tech companies are failing to keep elections safe, rights groups say time.com/6967334/ai-ele…