Selena Gomez Came After Facebook, Instagram, And Mark Zuckerberg Over COVID-19 Disinformation

ET Canada says that Selena Gomez has come for Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the continuous COVID disinformation being spread on the platform. She also got on him earlier in the month over white supremacist merchandise on Facebook and Instagram. Welp, Mark has had celebrities shit on him at the Golden Globes, called for the deletion of everyone’s account, and once boycotted his service for a whole day (how honorable).

Selena took to Twitter to drag Mark over the ample amounts of COVID disinformation being spread on Facebook and Instagram. Facebook has been getting in trouble for profiting off the collapse of democracy not doing enough to stop full-on lies about coronavirus or even about election integrity. Selena took major issue with the COVID stuff, saying they’d be responsible for “thousands of deaths” if they didn’t do something.

Scientific disinformation has and will cost lives. @Facebook said they don’t allow lies about COVID and vaccines to be spread on their platforms. So how come all of this is still happening? Facebook is going to be responsible for thousands of deaths if they don’t take action now! https://t.co/IAtDpNT5Tt

— Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) December 30, 2020

She also popped into the DMs of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s CEO Sheryl Sandburg on Instagram to ask them to take action against the bullshit they keep making money off of. Selena posted the message to her Instagram Stories:

In a statement to ET Canada, a rep for Instagram rep said that they have taken down the messiness that Selena was talking about:

“We’ve already removed the violating content brought to our attention.”

And a Facebook rep patted themselves hard on the back for removing a lot of white supremacy content that Selena pointed out a few weeks ago:

“We have removed the content which violates our policies prohibiting dangerous organizations. We regularly work to improve our technology to find and remove this content faster and, while there is more work to do, we are making progress… We’ve banned over 250 white supremacist organizations from Facebook and Instagram, and remove content that praises, supports or represents these groups whenever we find it. Between July and September, we removed four million pieces of content tied to organized hate from Facebook, over 97 per cent of which we found before it was reported.”

All right, all right, Selena is going hard for coronavirus truths. And while I hope she keeps roasting Mark, this is honestly not all that brave. Call me when she’s leaving harassing voicemails on Mark Zuckerberg’s phone screeching at him like Tom Cruise to a crew member. That’s how you get things done!

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