“Ethical Markets congratulates AVAAZ on its global campaigning for issues that we also do our part to support, including fixing Facebook and other social media platforms, see my forthcoming “The Future of Democracy Challenged in the Digital Age” in CADMUS, the journal of the World Academy of Art & Science, as well as our Green Transition Scoreboard 2018, now a free download at www.ethicalmarkets.com.
~Hazel Henderson, Editor“
There’s much darkness in the world, but from democracy and media to climate change, human rights and elephants, Avaaz is on fire!!!
Scroll down to read all about it, but first, just look at one-year-old Mateo, back with his parents after being torn from them by Trump’s border guards and locked up for months. Can you imagine how scared he was?
They’re back together because our movement funded top-notch lawyers to fight for their freedom, giving hope to Mateo and hundreds of children like him.
But it’s not just Mateo — we’re carrying the sparks of hope into the darkest places, and setting the world ablaze! Look at what we’ve got done together in the past few months!
We’re hammering Facebook to clean up the lies and hate…
The spread of hate online is one of the biggest threats we face, boosting the far-right’s divisive agenda everywhere. Mateo was just one of millions of victims. So when Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg came to Washington to answer for fake news and the fake accounts that spread it, we launched our global call for action against this threat to our democracies.
We installed hundreds of Zuckerberg ‘bots’ on the Capitol lawn, and ended up as front page news in the New York Times, and in over 500 other outlets around the world, including CNN and The Washington Post. Our team held dozens of advocacy meetings with governments, legislators and Facebook executives — we’re starting to see progress!