Because it is ostensibly tasked with making decisions about what content should be removed from Facebook and Instagram, in theory the board could have played a role in ridding those platforms of election-related misinformation — a looming threat with November around the corner. But restrictive bylaws coupled with a focus on reviewing content takedowns rather than content left up meant the oversight effort was widely regarded as toothless from the outset.
Board aside, Facebook is making some efforts to at least disseminate useful voting information to users, a defensive posture the company feels more comfortable in compared to playing offense against potential rule breaking. Last week, the company rolled out info labels that link to vetted election information on all voting-related posts from federal elected officials, a feature that will soon expand to all voting posts in the U.S.
In early June, Accountable Tech launched a memorable Facebook ad campaign targeting the company’s employees on their own platform. The ads, which urged Facebook workers to hold the company to account, came a day after some employees staged a virtual walkout to protest a now-infamous post in which the president threatened to shoot people protesting the police killing of George Floyd.
Facebook also faced scrutiny recently for hosting Trump’s false claims about mail-in voting and those falsehoods remain live on the platform without context or correction. These instances and others are cause for concern as the stakes for social platforms during the 2020 election inch higher and higher, worries made explicit by the open letter’s authors.
“As we enter an unprecedented election season—amid a global pandemic, an inflection point for racial justice, and a crisis of truth—we cannot accept Facebook’s toxic status quo, much less a toothless Oversight Board that lends it a false air of legitimacy.”
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Asia shares rise on vaccine hopes, tech rally on Wall Street
Asian shares were mostly higher Tuesday on rising hopes for an effective vaccine to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Scientists at Oxford
University reported that their experimental coronavirus vaccine
prompted a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the
shot in an early trial.
Other projects are
under way. A vaccine under development by colleagues of Dr. Anthony
Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert at the National
Institutes of Health, and Moderna Inc., will start its final testing
around July 27. The 30,000-person study is intended to prove if the
shots are strong enough to protect against the coronavirus.
Japan’s benchmark
Nikkei 225 gained 0.7% to finish at 22,884.22. South Korea’s Kospi
jumped 1.3% to 2,227.28. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 added 2.6% to
6,156.30. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 1.8% to 25,499.26, while the
Shanghai Composite was little changed, edging up less than 0.1% higher,
to 3,316.28.
Shares also rose in Taiwan and most of Southeast Asia.
Asian economies have
been carrying out a “new-normal” balancing act of opening economies,
with people going shopping and eating out, while doing social distancing
and wearing masks.
That’s had mixed
results, with cases shooting up recently in Tokyo to triple-digit
figures for daily newly confirmed cases. Japan had so far avoided the
massive cases and deaths seen in harder hit nations like the U.S.,
India, Brazil and parts of Europe.
Overnight, U.S.
technology and communication stocks and companies that rely on consumer
spending led mixed gains on Wall Street, outweighing losses elsewhere in
the market.
Amazon led the way
higher in the S&P 500 with a 7.9% gain. Microsoft also helped lift
the market, rising 4.3%. Noble Energy climbed 5.4% after the company
agreed to be acquired by Chevron for $5 billion.
Technology and
communications stocks and big e-commerce retailers like Amazon have
benefited this year as the pandemic has forced people to largely stay
home and rely increasingly on the internet for shopping, work andauto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa/ auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa/ auto saa/ auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa/ auto saa auto saa/ auto saa/ auto saa auto saa/ auto saa auto saa auto saa/ auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa/ auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa/ auto saa auto saa auto saa/ auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa/ auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa/ auto saa/ auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa auto saa
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