According to The Guardian, one of world’s biggest advertisers — Unilever — says it will avoid platforms that ‘create division’. It further threatens to take its ad purchases off Facebook and Google, if they cannot reign in hate and protect children. Their chief marketing officer says their online spending sometimes is "little better than a swamp in terms of its transparency".
If this finally is it, I say good riddance to surveillance capitalism.
(Score: 1) by Yaa101 on Tuesday February 13 2018, @12:34PM (1 child)
They just using their leverage to get a better deal and doing damage control to safe their brands from poisening.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Rivenaleem on Tuesday February 13 2018, @02:19PM
I see what you did there, leverage indeed!