Selena Gomez claims that social media ‘makes money out of anger’ in an interview published on Saturday.
The singer and actress has been condemning Big Tech companies for months and told the Associated Press shortly after pro-Trump riots besieged the US Capitol: ‘It’s about truth against lies and Facebook, Instagram and Big Tech- businesses need to stop allowing lies to flow and pretend to be the truth. ‘
She added that Facebook continued to “allow dangerous lies about vaccines and COVID and the US election, and neo-Nazi groups sell racist products via Instagram.”
On the day of the riots, January 6, Gomez tweeted the attack was the result of ‘allowing people with hatred in their hearts to use platforms that need to be used to bring people together and allow people to have a to build community. ‘
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She said Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google “let the American people down” that day and called on them to “fix things.”
(Associated Press) “/> Selena Gomez will be seen in Los Angeles, January 11, 2020.
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She told the AP in the interview, also on January 6, that technology companies should do more than the ‘minimum’.
Gomez became passionate about the issue in 2017 when a 12-year-old commented on one of her Instagram posts: “Go kill yourself.”
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“That was my tipping point,” she said. “I could not handle what I saw.”
She’s just one of a number of liberal celebrities calling technology companies to look the other way at what they see as potentially dangerous content on the platforms.
Conservatives also call for technological ventures for the opposite reason – censorship.
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Many Trump supporters shut down Twitter because they permanently banned President Trump, Rudy Giuliani and others after the riots, and Facebook and Instagram because they closed Trump’s account indefinitely.
Associated Press contributed to this report