In a note shared on Twitter after the chaos in Washington DC, Gomez specifically mentioned Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google as entities, in addition to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, Facebook Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and the CEO of Alphabet Inc. and Google Sundar Pichai.
“Today is the result of allowing people with hatred in their hearts to use platforms that should be used to bring people together and allow them to build a community,” she wrote, before citing the aforementioned list of technology leaders. “You all have failed the American people today and I hope you will fix things going forward.”
Gomez has openly shared his condemnation of Facebook’s misinformation before. In December, it released inaccuracies about the COVID-19 vaccine on the platform. “Scientific misinformation has cost and will cost lives,” she wrote. “@Facebook said it doesn’t allow lies about COVID and vaccines to be spread on its platforms. So how is all this still going on? Facebook will be responsible for thousands of deaths if they don’t act now!”
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