First appearance on Fox: Top congressional Republicans are demanding a meeting with the CEO about Eventbrite’s policies and terms, removing an event by women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines that organizers call anti-Semitic. It highlights the hypocrisy of the platform that hosts the event.
“In recent weeks, Eventbrite appears to have selectively enforced its Terms of Service by removing some events while leaving potentially violating events on the site,” the letter said. There is. “We raise the following issues not to direct or remove events or users from the Marketplace, but to better understand our Community Guidelines enforcement process.”
Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Chair of the House Energy Committee, Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), Chair of the Subcommittee on Innovation and Data, Oversight. – Representative Gus M. Bilirakis (R-Fla.), chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee, and Rep. H. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, signed the letter.
In October, Eventbrite removed former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines’ speaking tour stop at the University of California, Davis from its marketplace. Gaines has been outspoken about transgender women’s participation in women’s sports.
An email from Eventbrite Trust & Safety stated that the event violated the company’s “Community Guidelines and Terms of Service.”
EVENTBRITE MARKETPLACE removes Riley Gaines’ ‘Protecting Women’s Sports’ for violating community guidelines
“While we struggle to understand the rationale for removing this event, other Eventbrite listings that appear to violate some of Eventbrite’s community guidelines are Still live, including those featuring speakers pledging allegiance to groups we have designated as foreign terrorist organizations,ā the senators wrote. .
The members emphasized that Eventbrite includes events and speakers associated with controversial and potentially offensive statements and actions regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These examples include references to the October 7 Israeli massacre, and when Eventbrite promoted the sold-out “Palestinian Center 2023 Annual Conference” in Washington, D.C., organizers said the platform’s ” In the description of the event, he referred to Israel as “Israeli apartheid.” Events section.
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āThis comes as Ms. Gainesā promotion of the widely accepted view of protecting womenās athletics stands in stark contrast to Eventbriteās event, which featured speakers sympathetic to genocide. “This raises the question of whether supporting terrorism or anti-Semitic events or speakers at events are not in clear violation of Eventbrite’s ban on content,” the letter said. “Discriminate against, harass, disparage, intimidate, incite violence against, or target an individual or group on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin.” “We are seeking information about what metrics Eventbrite uses to enforce our community guidelines on selected issues such as women’s athletics counter-terrorism and anti-Semitism.”
The senators asked Eventbrite about the company’s review process, community guideline violations, handling of pro-Hamas allegations and anti-Semitic incidents, identification of terrorist organizations, metrics used to enforce guidelines, comparison of complaints and reviews, and more. Information is requested by December 21st. Timeline between various events.
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“We appreciate your company’s commitment to being a platform that values āādiverse voices and a vibrant community. However, we are not confident that you are consistently enforcing this policy,” the letter said. is tied.