The Black Lives Matter Movement and the Chronovirus Pendemic

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Social media has played a major role in the black lives matter movement and the chronovirus pendemic. Some facebook employees have staged a virtual walkout in response to mark zuckeberg's decision not to enforce content moderation policy on posts that incite violence. We hope this interview gives you a better sense of just how global the reach of these harms is, and what we could do to repair the damage.We are lending our platform to elevate more voices as we listen and learn fatis is just one of them.

The sound of bullies on social media can be deafening, but what about their victims? “They're just sitting there being pummeled and pummeled and pummeled,” says Fadi Quran. As the campaign director of Avaaz, a platform for 62 million activists worldwide, Fadi and his team go to great lengths to figure out exactly how social media is being weaponized against vulnerable communities, including those who have no voice online at all. “They can't report it. They’re not online.” Fadi says. “They can't even have a conversation about it.” But by bringing these voices of survivors to Silicon Valley, Fadi says, tech companies can not just hear the lethal consequences of algorithmic abuse, they can start hacking away at a system that Fadi argues was “designed for bullies.”