The Civil Center for Civil Rights and Technology holds industries that create and use responsible technology to ensure that their platforms and products are safe and fair for everyone. The center recommends social media platforms to use the moderation of common sense content and the verification of facts to combat lies and online hatred and for companies that use and create AI systems that consecrate and protect the civil rights of individuals, not harm them.
Hold the meta-responsible for the authorization of the free binding for lies and hatred
For almost a decade now, the civil rights community has argued for modifications to online ecosystems that allow the perpetuation of speech, disinformation and disinformation becoming violence. We have hired Meta (and its previous iteration, Facebook) directly to approach these policies and practices that allow our communities to be injured, threatened and silenced.
In a step to hold the meta-responsible for their change of policy announced to remove the verifications of the facts and the railing for moderation of content around immigration and gender subjects, the Civil For Civil Rights and Technology of the Leadership Conference launched a digital campaign to call this failed practice, the linchpin being a petition To bring together signatures opposed to the moderation of Meta’s content.
Real consequences of online lies and hatred
Online lies and hatred have real consequences. Last year, The eligibility of real voters has been questionedAnd threats of violence Hit local communities like Springfield, Ohio. Humanitarian workers have been threatened After Hurricane Helene and Milton. Election administrators have resigned Due to the threats, they were faced online to do their job. Bad and disinformation leads to dangerous policies – echo lies on immigrant communities and trans is used by bad actors to justify the hateful direction that he hopes to take our country.
Community notes failure
Zuckerberg has announced that his business would use the same content moderation model used by X (formerly Twitter) – a practice entitled “Community Notes”. Community notes without verifying professional facts do not work to combat erroneous information and online disinformation. Researchers believe that Facebook and Instagram users could at least meet 277 million more Cases of hate speeches and other harmful content each year because of this decision.
The moderation of the content keeps us all in safety
The moderation of the content, carried out intelligently and carefully, increases everyone’s access to specific information. Although no method takes all lies, it guarantees that less dangerous sneak. Our civil rights must be protected on social platforms to ensure a dynamic and open democracy and various online communities.
Innovation framework
Technology shapes almost all aspects of modern life. Although technological progress can benefit everyone, many AI tools can also have huge risks. These risks are not theoretical. Defective AI systems mean that you can pay more for the products you buy, not be considered for the work you have applied or unjustly pay for your insurance. Defective AI systems can refuse someone access to public benefits or even wrongly accuse them of a crime. We have seen this happen many times.
AI is particularly harmful when it automates existing biases against marginalized communities, including women, disabled, immigrants and colored communities. Rather than strengthening a defective AI, existing prejudice or automation discrimination, technology should be safe and just for all of us.
The Center for Civil Rights and Technology builds the framework of innovation, recognizing that in addition to decision -makers, companies invest, create and use AI and emerging technologies have the responsibility of ensuring that the systems they develop and deploy the civil rights of people. People need to ensure that the technology makes the decisions that affect them actually work and work fairly. It is now time to go beyond principles and implement concrete measures to ensure that the technology used which has an impact on their lives has appropriate railing. Businesses and people who work there have first -line responsibilities to ensure that the objective is achieved.
The Center innovation framework will provide a base to assess how the industry incorporates principles such as safety and equity in the development of their products. More information is coming soon.