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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:56PM
Need to remember that Facebook is publicly traded, and highly overvalued. Investors, big and small, are banking on Facebook. Facebook won't implode. Remember "to big to fail"? Facebook may deflate, over a long period of time. But, it has accumulated enough money/power to prevent dying off in any short to medium term timeline. Facebook is going to be around long after all of us Soylentils are dead and gone.
Don't get me wrong - I would LOVE to see Facebook wither and die within the next decade. It has a net negative value to society. But, it just isn't happening.