Researchers and activists: Join Mozilla and the Tech Global Institute for a discussion about tech platforms’ conduct during an historic election year
2024 is an historic election year, with more voters than ever before participating in contests across scores of countries. In this context, major tech platforms have a duty to protect users from disinformation and other content that hampers free and fair elections. But are they?
In this 60-minute webinar, two leading voices for platform accountability - Mozilla and the Tech Global Institute - will convene like-minded researchers and activists across civil society to discuss the issue.
The webinar will:
- Provide researchers and activists with a baseline for assessing how well platforms have responded to elections
- Identify specific product or policy gaps that led to disproportionate risks to vulnerable communities
- Align on a common vocabulary on risks and mitigation strategies for platform-related risks.
Mozilla & elections
Mozilla has conducted a range of work on elections integrity and platform accountability. The nonprofit has examined the growing impact of WhatsApp and Telegram on democratic discourse during elections in the Global South; contrasted platforms’ election policies from region to region; campaigned publicly for WhatsApp to do more to address political disinformation; and loudly criticized Meta’s decision to deprecate CrowdTangle.
Tech Global Institute & elections
The Platform Accountability Toolkit for Global Majority Elections by Tech Global Institute is a comprehensive, practical guide for CSOs in under-resourced environments to assess platform preparedness and response during elections. It provides an overview of the major policies and products by key platforms—Meta, YouTube, X and TikTok—that are launched during election periods, analyzes the efficacy of these interventions in tackling highly nuanced and contextual issues, and introduces a framework for CSOs to do their own assessment of these levers. The objective of the toolkit is to establish a baseline to measure the efficacy of platform interventions, which would lead to a more consistent, streamlined evaluation over time.