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Verizon Joins Growing Facebook Advertiser Boycott [Updated]

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday June 27 2020, @05:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the biggest-loser-competition dept.

Freeman writes:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/facebook-faces-advertiser-backlash-over-its-handling-of-racism-hate-speech/

"Amid this global movement to end anti-Blackness, we credit these companies for answering our call swiftly and taking a clear stand for what's right so we can hold Facebook accountable for its racist policies," said Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, which is one of the groups organizing the boycott.

Almost 100 firms have joined the boycott so far, Robinson said, adding: "Facebook has a decision to make: adopt a civil rights infrastructure or continue to see key advertisers dropping from its platform."

[...] Most recently, the tension between Facebook and the content its users share has come to a head due to messages posted by President Donald Trump and his re-election campaign in the past month, amid nationwide protests in support of Black communities and against police violence. Twitter in late May took action against a Trump tweet by appending a warning that it glorified violence against protesters, in contravention of the site's rules. Facebook, however, took no action against the same content, and the company took heat from both civil rights advocates and employees over that choice.

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  • (Score: 3, Troll) by Sulla on Saturday June 27 2020, @07:50PM (2 children)

    by Sulla (5173) on Saturday June 27 2020, @07:50PM (#1013345) Journal

    All black lives matter

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @09:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @09:41PM (#1013407)

    All black lives matter*

    *Except for the one that are aborted.

    FTFY

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2020, @02:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2020, @02:13AM (#1013946)

    Troll mods are fun. Because you only care about the seven to fifteen blacks killed a year by police and not the 10+ thousand a year killed by their kin, or the 100k+ a year killed by the planned parenthood racists, or the ones killed due to the fentanyl we have coming in from China, or the ones stuck living in cities run by Democrats since the 20s that they want to keep on the party plantation to farm those votes.

    Democrats only care about the black lives and issues that effect them that keep those votes coming in. Slavery is alive and well, and the Dems will do anything they can to keep it that way.

    Democrats rightly gave them civil rights, something the Republicans failed to do. The Dems then proceeded to ensure the destruction of the black nuclear family, black business ownership (was a higher percentage of blacks than whites in the 50s), inner city education, and tolerance of drugs.