Donald—I appreciate the free publicity for Borat! I admit, I don’t find you funny either. But yet the whole world laughs at you.
I’m always looking for people to play racist buffoons, and you’ll need a job after Jan. 20. Let’s talk!
No, Mark, it’s not that “complex.” Let me simplify (again): you and Facebook take money from politicians and run their ads — even if they’re not true — without fact-checking them. That’s not democracy, that’s you profiting off propaganda.
#siliconsix
This is a dangerous moment. Trump won’t concede. Facebook is spreading his lies about voting fraud.
Mark—history will judge you by what you do next.
You have a choice—stand with Trump or stand with democracy.
The whole world is watching.
This is the most important moment in the history of social media.
The world’s largest platforms have banned the world's biggest purveyor of lies, conspiracies and hate.
To every Facebook and Twitter employee, user and advocate who fought for this--the entire world thanks you!
Very odd. Never expected to have an op-ed in The Washington Post. But it’s time to hold
#MarkZuckerberg
and the
#SiliconSix
accountable for spreading conspiracies and lies. Congress, what are you going to do?!
Hey Mark Zuckerberg,
@jack
,
@SusanWojcicki
and
@sundarpichai
-- Donald Trump just incited a violent attack on American democracy.
Is that FINALLY enough for you to act?!
It's time to ban Donald Trump from your platforms once and for all!
We don’t let 1 person control the water for 2.5 billion people.
We don’t let 1 person control electricity for 2.5 billion people.
Why do we let 1 man control the information seen by 2.5 billion people?
Facebook needs to be regulated by governments, not ruled by an emperor!
Facebook just banned Trump!
Retweet and tell
@Twitter
and
@jack
--
Suspending Trump for a FEW HOURS for inciting a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol is NOT ENOUGH.
Stop letting Trump use Twitter to incite violence and undermine democracy!
#BanTrumpSaveDemocracy
A good question for Mark Zuckerberg when he appears before Congress on Tuesday:
Facebook says it does not allow a person who "advocates...acts of violence.”
Yet you’ve granted an exception to Steven Bannon, who advocates for the murder and beheading of Dr. Fauci.
WHY?!
Ignoring repeated warnings that Facebook users were organizing to slaughter peaceful protesters is not an “operational mistake.” It is complicity in murder.
#StopHateForProfit
In 2016, Trump became president because of 77,000 votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Today alone, 100,000 Americans will be diagnosed with Covid.
Vote like your life depends on it—because it does.
.
@twitter
suspending Trump for 12 hours?
Sorry
@jack
—not good enough.
This is your chance to finally defend democracy.
Ban Trump from Twitter—for good!
Wawaweewah! I'm shocked and humbled to be nominated for 3 Golden Globes, and congratulations to the incredible
@MariaBakalova96
too!
We're so honoured--and just in case we don't win any, I've already hired Rudy Giuliani to contest the results.
Facebook and Twitter giving Trump a little time out is NOT ENOUGH.
Trump instigated an act of domestic terrorism against America.
Facebook and Twitter have banned other extremists PERMANENTLY.
They must ban Trump PERMANENTLY. NOW!
#BanTrumpSaveDemocracy
This is madness. The mastermind of the world’s greatest propaganda machine congratulating the world’s biggest purveyor of lies and conspiracies. Trump and Zuck profit off each other. This is how democracies die!
Today is a chance to change social media forever.
Tell Mark Zuckerberg and
@jack
--
Facebook and Twitter have spread Trump's lies and hate and helped radicalize the extremists who attacked the Capitol.
Suspending Trump for a few hours is NOT ENOUGH!
#BanTrumpSaveDemocracy
.
@Twitter
,
@jack
--
5 people are dead because of Trump's election lies--lies you helped spread!
How many more have to die before you ban Trump from Twitter?!
Today, civil rights groups are calling on you to do the right thing!
#BanTrumpSaveDemocracy
The new Axis of Evil.
Trump spews lies, hate and conspiracies.
Fox dutifully repeats them.
Facebook microtargets them to millions of voters—and gets paid to do it.
Goebbels would be jealous.
Thank you,
@ADL
, for your International Leadership Award. My message: if we want to stop hate, we have to regulate Facebook and social media - the greatest propaganda machine in history. My full speech here:
.
@Twitter
,
@jack
--
5 people are dead because of Trump's election lies--lies you helped spread!
How many more have to die before you ban Trump from Twitter?!
Today, civil rights groups are calling on you to do the right thing!
#BanTrumpSaveDemocracy
In my speech I mentioned that if
#MarkZuckerberg
and tech CEOs allow a foreign power to interfere in our election (again) or facilitate another genocide (like Myanmar), perhaps they should be sent to jail. My full speech here:
Facebook is NOT “capable” of fact-checking political ads for lies? But it IS capable of fact checking ads about the census or coronavirus?
Admit it, you COULD stop spreading lies by politicians, you just prefer to profit off propaganda.
Donald Trump says I'm a creep. I say he's an existential threat to democracy.
That's why I released Borat before the election.
There's only one week left.
Please VOTE! (Or you will be execute)
Hey Mark Zuckerberg &
@jack
Dorsey -- Facebook and Twitter are spreading racist attacks on these Black athletes.
Online racism leads to real-world hate crimes.
It's time to rid racism from your platforms once and for all!
#StopHateForProfit
Mark Zuckerberg, how do you sleep at night?
This is on Facebook's Instagram right now.
Your algorithms are STILL recommending lies about Covid and vaccines.
How many people have to die before you act?!
#StopDeathForProfit
New Report:
YouTube is the new Trump TV.
Trump's YouTube Channel shows +4,000 Trump videos, including "stop the steal" and calls "to fight!"
Corporate America--WHY are you running your ads on You Tube Trump TV?!
RT to tell
@Google
,
@YouTube
,
@SusanWojcicki
...
#BanTrumpSaveDemocracy
!
Reprehensible.
Mark Zuckerberg confirms that Facebook won’t ban people who call for murder—so long as they don’t do it too often!
Make no mistake—like Myanmar and Kenosha, more innocent people will be killed.
And Facebook will be why.
FINALLY--Facebook suspends Trump "indefinitely"!
The dam is breaking.
Every social media company, every online platform, every advertiser has a choice:
Stand with Trump and the domestic terrorists who attacked the Capitol
Or stand for democracy.
#BanTrumpSaveDemocracy
In any other company, Mark Zuckerberg would have been fired years ago.
But Facebook is a one-man dictatorship.
Mark alone controls 60% of voting shares--and the FB policies that harm children.
The problem with Facebook isn't the algorithms.
It's the boy robot who runs them.
YouTube suspends Trump!
But only for 1 week. With YouTube's "3 strikes" rule, Trump gets to incite violence 2 MORE TIMES before it bans him!
Are you kidding?!
RT to tell
@YouTube
,
@SusanWojcicki
:
Prevent more violence, ban Trump PERMANENTLY.
#BanTrumpSaveDemocracy
Wow.
YouTube's own employees agree that YouTube plays a "key role" in "fascist recruitment" in the US, including the Trump extremists who attacked the Capitol.
RT to tell
@YouTube
,
@SusanWojcicki
:
Don't suspend Trump for a week, ban him. PERMANENTLY!
#BanTrumpSaveDemocracy
It still feels bizarre to speak out in my own voice, but I wrote this for
@TIME
because Trump’s lies and conspiracies, spread by Facebook, threaten to kill more people—and democracy as we know it!
He's baaaack!
This week, Facebook/Instagram and YouTube may lift their suspensions and allow Trump BACK on their platforms.
What?! So he can incite violence AGAIN?!
RT and tell
@Facebook
@Google
@YouTube
:
Remove Trump from your platforms, PERMANENTLY!
#BanTrumpSaveDemocracy
Think Trump is leaving tomorrow?
Think again.
Facebook and YouTube STILL show THOUSANDS of Trump posts & videos with his election lies and calls to "fight!"
RT & tell
@Facebook
@YouTube
:
On January 20th, remove Trump from your platforms, PERMANENTLY!
#BanTrumpSaveDemocracy
I apologise. The conspiracy theorists were right.
There IS a secretive, global organization that preys on children, gets them hooked and profits off the harm it inflicts.
This year it expects to make $117 billion.
It's called Facebook & Instagram.
#FacebookHarmsChildren
Utter madness.
Facebook is pushing Trump's election lies to MILLIONS of people.
FB's "solution" is a weak label that "election officials follow strict rules"?
Are you kidding?
Is ANYONE at Facebook willing to stand up and stop spreading Trump's lies?!
Let’s be very clear:
Trump is bullying social media companies to spread his lies, hate and conspiracies to win the election.
Zuckerberg rushes to Fox to say Facebook is happy to help.
This is how democracy dies.
.
@Twitter
is a super-spreader of lies and hate.
Tweet
@jack
and tell him to pause Trending Topics before the election.
Stop disinformation.
Save democracy.
#UntrendOctober
.
@Facebook
- I criticized you for not blocking false info about Covid. Now your AI is blocking my article because the photo has false info about Covid!
Instead of just AI, use the $ you've made during Covid to hire more humans to moderate and factcheck!
The only thing more terrifying than Mark Zuckerberg surfing in whiteface...
Is the white supremacy and lies Facebook spreads every day.
This Weds Sept 16 I’m freezing my Instagram to tell Mark to
#StopHateForProfit
.
Who’s in?!
Here she is -- the phenomenal
@mariabakalova96
, in her own words: how we found her and how her incredible performance in Borat is a brave stand against misogyny. Best of all, Maria is just getting started.
It says something about our time, that the man who endorsed on Who Is America arming 4 year olds with machine guns, mortars and grenades, is now pitching himself as the sensible alternative to Trump - and not a single person can dispute it.
Terrifying. 218,000 political ads on Facebook—many with lies and hate - seen by voters perhaps 1.3 BILLION times. And Facebook profits.
#MarkZuckerberg
, history will judge you harshly - if we still have historians after you help destroy democracy!
Stunning new report: since 2015, domestic terrorism in the US has surged.
A major propellant? Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook
Also since 2015: Facebook made $299 BILLION.
Facebook—where extremism isn't the exception...it's the business model.
Remembering the courage and wisdom of Abbie Hoffman, who the world lost 32 years ago today.
"Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles."
This July, every major company will have to decide:
Advertise on Facebook and help Mark Zuckerberg profit off hate, racism & bigotry?
Or take a stand for decency, equality & democracy?
#StopHateForProfit
Thank you
@NAACP
@ADL
@Colorofchange
and others
NEW: Trump's YouTube Channel has GAINED 30,000 subscribers this week.
Other companies are cutting ties with Trump. YouTube is profiting!
YouTube--the new Trump TV.
RT to tell
@Google
,
@YouTube
,
@SusanWojcicki
...stop profiting off lies and violence!
#BanTrumpSaveDemocracy
Overlooked in today's news:
Mark--even your oversight board says Facebook shouldn't have special exemptions for politicians because they "have a greater power to cause harm than other people."
Facebook--stop protecting politicians who spread lethal lies!
#StopHateForProfit
Thank you to the Writers Guild for honouring Borat with Best Adapted Screenplay!
We never imagined this movie would be so popular…after all, it's about the world’s most ignorant, misogynistic, racist man--and how Borat tried to deliver a bribe to his Vice President.
Thank you the Academy for nominating Borat for the second time for Adapted Screenplay and for giving us the award for hiring the most WGA members in one movie.
Truly unbelievable.
YouTube has actually built a "donate" button to raise $$$ with extremist videos.
WATCH BELOW: the viewer clicks "donate," the money rolls in and YouTube takes a cut.
@YouTube
--getting rich off lies and hate!
#StopHateForProfit
THREAD: YouTube suspended Donald Trump for inciting violence and telling lies.
But YouTube still makes big $$ off videos likes this one blaming "antifa" for the riots and talking about "civil war".
@YouTube
stop profiting from extremism and lies.
Congratulations
@MariaBakalova96
on your
@SAGawards
nom for Borat's Tutar!
You are funny, brilliant, deeply moving, amazingly brave and a hilarious improviser who can inhabit a character for hours on end.
I'm so happy we found you!
The surge in antisemitism on the streets is fueled by antisemitism on social media.
@Jack
,
@Twitter
-- Why do you allow
#HitlerWasRight
?!
Those who celebrate the Holocaust aim to perpetuate another.
#StopHateForProfit
Outrageous. This is Facebook’s idea of change?
#MarkZuckerberg
, you STILL take politicians’ money, STILL refuse to fact check their ads and STILL microtarget their lies to your +2 billion users. Mark, the demagogues of the world thank you!
Congratulations Bulgaria!! You gave us the incredibly talented and brave
@MariaBakalova96
, who is the beating heart of BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM. We are so excited about your history-making Oscar nomination!
Congratulations
@MariaBakalova96
on your
#CriticsChoice
award for the courage, grace and joy you brought to Borat's Tutar! Maybe this makes up for having to be alone in a room with Rudy Giuliani?!
If he owned a fancy restaurant and 4 neo-Nazis came goose-stepping into the dining room and were talking loudly about wanting to kill “Jewish scum”, would he serve them an elegant eight course meal? Or would tell them to get the f**k out of his restaurant? It’s the same thing.
Bizarrely, I’m receiving an award from the
@ADL
this afternoon. More bizarrely, they’re letting me give a speech. I have some thoughts on what should happen to
#MarkZuckerberg
for turning Facebook into the greatest propaganda machine in history.
We are proud to announce that, at this year’s
#NeverIsNow
Summit,
@SachaBaronCohen
will receive ADL’s International Leadership Award, recognizing those who push boundaries in their effort to expose
#antiSemitism
&
#hate
around the world. Full statement:
Truly humbled by the reaction to
#TrialofTheChicago7
, now on
@netflix
.
"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists"--Abbie Hoffman
The only weapons Abbie Hoffman brought to Chicago were his words. The U.S. government put him on trial for it.
#TrialOfTheChicago7
is on
@Netflix
TOMORROW.
Good news—another win for
#StopHateForProfit
:
Facebook should have banned Holocaust denial long ago, but better late than never.
@YouTube
,
@Twitter
,
@reddit
,
@Google
—this is not a hard call. Those who deny the Holocaust aim to perpetrate another!
This is Sundar & Susan
When Donald Trump incited violence, they suspended him from YouTube for...1 week
Next week, they plan to let Trump back on...to incite again!
This is madness.
RT
@sundarpichai
,
@SusanWojcicki
If you allow it, you are complicit.
#BanTrumpSaveDemocracy
Huge thanks to the Writers Guild for the nomination of BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM and to my incredible co-writers. We’re humbled to be among giants — Lord of the Rings, The Pink Panther, The Godfather — in being recognized for original screenplay and the sequel.
Tonight
#MarkZuckerberg
is on
@CNN
to discuss the pandemic. But that’s not the only threat Facebook is making worse.
@AndersonCooper
, please ask:
What should the penalty be if Facebook is used to mislead voters or interfere in the presidential election again this year?
Newsmax shut down Mike Lindell's lies--because it can be sued!
But Facebook spreads the same lies to millions--because it's legally immune (Section 230).
This is insane.
No more special rules for Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.
Hold Mark liable. Stop the lies. Reform 230.
RT to tell
@FrancesHaugen
:
Thank you for your courage in standing up to Facebook and the lies and hate it spreads!
It’s time to hold Mark Zuckerberg accountable.
#FacebookKills
You can’t make this up.
#MarkZuckerberg
has staff blow-dry his armpits before he speaks?
Mark, here’s a solution for profuse sweating...
Tell the truth!
Congratulations Aaron Sorkin and the entire team behind Chicago 7 for six Oscar nominations! I am grateful to the Academy to be a small part of this morning's honours and I share my nomination with the incredible actors of Chicago 7 who are equally deserving of this accolade.
I’m just a bloke off the telly, but it’s hard to keep quiet about this. 10 million people in Yemen are on the brink of famine, primarily due to the dropping of bombs (sold by the US and UK) and blockade of humanitarian aid by the Saudi coalition. Houthis are not without blame.
Thank you
@Variety
,
@BrentALang
Borat is an absurdity and Chicago 7 really happened, but the message's the same:
When leaders lie, people die--as we saw again this week.
Our pluralist democracies can only survive if we stop hate, conspiracies and lies.
#MarkZuckerberg
, you are wrong: Holocaust denial isn’t just something that “people get wrong.” Those who deny the Holocaust aim to encourage another one. Great idea from
@ADL
and
@JGreenblattADL
.
Honored to be a part of Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7--out today on Netflix.
Whether it’s 1968 or 2020, we owe a debt to every person who dares to march for justice and peace.
Serious question for Pichai, Dorsey & Zuckerberg when they testify tomorrow:
You're worth $1.3 billion (Sundar), $13 billion (Jack) and $106 billion (Mark).
People died because of the lies you spread about the election and Covid.
Was the money worth it?
#StopHateForProfit
This is terrifying.
What if millions of people refuse a vaccine for coronavirus because of lies they’ve seen on social media?
It’s time to hold Facebook and YouTube liable for the content they spread and the deaths they facilitate!
The President is right—Facebook is killing people.
CEOs have been jailed for less.
But under US law, social media CEOs have near total immunity, which is insane.
Change the law.
Hold Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook accountable for the death they cause.
#StopDeathForProfit