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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/19/tech/north-face-facebook-ads/index.html:
Outdoor apparel brand The North Face has become the best-known company yet to commit to an advertising boycott of Facebook in light of the social media platform's handling of misinformation and hate speech — a move that could open the door for other brands to do the same.
The brand's decision responds to a pressure campaign by top civil rights groups, including the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League, known as #StopHateForProfit, which on Wednesday began calling for advertisers to suspend their marketing on Facebook in the month of July.
"We're in," The North Face tweeted. "We're out @Facebook #StopHateForProfit."
Hours later, outdoor equipment retailer REI said it will join the boycott.
[...] The activists demanding change face an enormously ambitious task. Facebook is the second-largest player in US digital marketing after Google, and last year generated $69.7 billion from advertising worldwide.
(Score: 1) by Zinnia Zirconium on Monday June 22 2020, @11:51PM (1 child)
Facebook makes a nice compression algorithm. And because they're an advertising company, they call their compression Zstandard to convince you to use it. It's the standard. Seriously though Zstandard is fast and effective.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @12:06AM
Z for Zendetta.