Selena Gomez said social media is “profiting from evil” in an interview published on Saturday.
The singer and actress has been criticizing Big Tech companies for months and told the Associated Press shortly after pro-Trump protesters surrounded the United States Capitol: “This is about truth versus lies and Facebook, Instagram and Big Tech companies need to stop to allow lies to just flow and pretend to be the truth. “
She added that Facebook continues to allow “dangerous lies about vaccines, COVID and the US elections, and neo-Nazi groups are selling racist products via Instagram”.
On the day of the riot, Jan. 6, Gomez tweeted that the attack resulted from “allowing people with hate in their hearts to use platforms that should be used to bring people together and allow them to build a community”
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She said Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google “failed the American people” that day and called on them to “fix things going forward”.
(Associated Press) “/> Selena Gomez is 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 need to do more than the “minimum”.
Gomez fell in love with the subject in 2017, when a 12-year-old girl commented in one of her Instagram posts: “Go kill yourself”.
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“That was my tipping point,” she said. “I couldn’t handle what I was seeing.”
She is just one of a series of liberal celebrities who complain about technology companies for looking the other way at what they consider to be potentially dangerous content being shared on platforms.
Conservatives are also calling technology companies for the opposite reason – censorship.
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Many Trump supporters criticized Twitter for permanently banning President Trump, Rudy Giuliani and others after the riots and Facebook and Instagram for indefinitely blocking Trump’s account.
The Associated Press contributed to this report