Trump cannot run in 2024

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Wed 11/16/2022 1:06 PM

Donald Trump should not get free airtime on CNN and other news networks. Sign this petition immediately.

Dear MoveOn member,

In 2016, major news networks gave Donald Trump $2 billion in free advertising.1 They haven't learned—and are about to do it again. 

As Donald Trump announced he was running for president again, we saw that the news media learned nothing from the last go-round about how to avoid his toxic manipulations. Just like FOX, CNN covered his speech live—essentially giving him free rein to dominate airwaves and reach viewers with his narcissistic brand of conspiracy theories and abuse.

And he doesn't have to pay a dime for all this free advertising.

Donald Trump knows how to manipulate the media into covering his speeches live—giving him valuable free airtime to spew vitriol, lies, and dangerous disinformation. CNN and other news networks need to stop showing his speeches live.

CNN: Stop giving Donald Trump—a seditionist, QAnon conspiracy theorist, and spreader of disinformation—free airtime on cable news! 

News networks don't need to show his speeches live. They can cover them as news—wait until he's done, show clips within context, offer fact-checking, and stop amplifying his abusive attacks, bigoted insults, QAnon-level conspiracies, and dangerous deceptions. Trump's announcement speech was riddled with lies, which live coverage allowed him to pump directly into people's homes without journalists tethering him to reality. 

News agencies also have a responsibility to add context when they discuss Trump. He isn't a normal candidate; he isn't a media-darling celebrity. As NPR said in the lede to its own report, "Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, has filed to run for president again in 2024."2 That is the kind of honest context every news outlet should provide when discussing Trump. 

Trump sought to overturn an election and helped incite a deadly insurrection. We know his words carry weight. You can cover him as news—but don't serve as his personal broadcasting network. Stop covering him live. Fact-check his statements. And don't fall into the trap of giving him free airtime.

We've been down this road before. We should have learned our lessons. 

Click here to add your name to this petition which we will deliver to the head of CNN as well as other media executives and news directors, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks for all you do. 

–Justin, Valeria, Isbah, David, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "$2 Billion Worth of Free Media for Donald Trump," The New York Times, March 15, 2016https://act.moveon.org/go/169648?t=17&akid=338369%2E41532114%2EKGrrwk

2. "Donald Trump who tried to overturn Biden's legitimate election, launches 2024 bid," NPR, November 15, 2022https://act.moveon.org/go/169651?t=19&akid=338369%2E41532114%2EKGrrwk

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ADDENDUM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, November 16, 2022

CONTACT: Anna Zuccaro | anna@unbendablemedia.com

UltraViolet Slams Facebook for Forcing Fact-Checkers Not to Fact-Check Donald Trump, Allowing Users to Post Related Disinformation

WASHINGTON, DC — According to reports of an internal memo leak yesterday from Meta, fact-checkers may not fact-check Donald Trump. While Trump is currently banned from Facebook, the fact-check ban will apply to anything Trump says, including false statements, which can be posted to the platform by other users.

The memo established that if Trump announced a 2024 presidential bid he would no longer be fact-checked on the platform. 

Trump has not been allowed to post on his Facebook and Instagram since the days following the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Meta is considering allowing Trump back on the platform as soon as January 2023.

In response, Bridget Todd, communications director from UltraViolet, a national gender equity group and leading anti-disinformation advocate, issued the following statement:

“Meta forcing fact-checkers to ignore Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and other right-wing extremists’ lies is nothing new. Considering Facebook’s sketchy history of fact checking Donald Trump and other right-wing politicians, or lack thereof, the contents of this memo are hardly a surprise.

“Facebook didn’t deplatform Donald Trump until after he incited a violent and deadly insurrection in 2021. When Trump was on Facebook, he consistently posted lies, many rooted in racist, sexist disinformation, without incident. 

“Let’s be clear, Meta is not bending its rules for Trump or right-wing radicals on Facebook — this is business as usual. Meta platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, generate profits from reposts and clicks, regardless of whether they contain valid facts or not. 

“Meta needs to hold politicians to the same fact-checking standards as regular users.“

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