Tell Twitter to Stop Disinformation
Twitter owner Elon Musk retweeted a deepfake video that stitched together real and manipulated audio of Vice President Kamala Harris — without noting it was a parody. The post seemed to clearly violate Twitter’s own rules against synthetic and manipulated media. And Twitter’s AI chatbot spread false information about ballot deadlines to millions of users for more than a week.1
These actions harm the health of our democracy. Add your name to our petition urging Twitter to protect its users from the toxic spread of disinformation.
1. “Musk’s AI Chatbot Spread Election Misinformation, Secretaries of State Say,” Axios, Aug. 5, 2024
To X Corp. CEO Linda Yaccarino:
Social-media platforms like X must consider the year-round vulnerabilities that allow election-specific content to mislead and polarize voters.
We urge you to immediately adopt the following steps before the damage is irreversible:
- Reinstate election-integrity policies and fully staff critical platform-integrity teams to ensure more efficient enforcement across languages.
- Enforce rules against election lies and hate in political advertising, require human review of such ads, and label ads containing generative AI.
- Require disclosure of AI-generated political content and prohibit the use of deepfakes in political ads; promote factual election content; and ensure that generative AI products have usage policies around election-related content and are supported by adequate trust and safety teams.
- Reduce the visibility and easy distribution of election-related content that has been flagged and is awaiting review.
- Hold influencer, public-figure and political-candidate accounts to the same moderation and enforcement standards as everyone else.
- Improve transparency by requiring public disclosure of moderation and enforcement practices.
Please take appropriate steps to protect the rights of your users and the health of our democracy as elections approach in November.