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        <title><![CDATA[Influential advertising firm urges clients to boycott Facebook]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An influential digital advertising agency reportedly urged its clients to boycott Facebook over the social media giant&#8217;s failure to combat hate speech.</p><p>New York-based 360i encouraged clients Thursday to pull their Facebook spending for July in support of civil-rights&#8217; groups call for an advertising boycott of the company, <strong>according to The Wall Street Journal</strong>.</p><p>The ad firm — which has worked with Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s, Oreo and United Airlines — told clients in an email that it &#8220;believes any social platform that earns profits by amplifying the voices of their community must have a zero tolerance policy for hate,&#8221; according to the Journal.</p><p>&#8220;It is no longer enough to be on a path to addressing this or merely celebrating the considerable gains made over the last year or so,&#8221; the email reportedly said.</p><p>360i&#8217;s email did not name Facebook but linked to an article about the civil-rights groups&#8217; boycott push, the Journal reported. The groups including the NAACP, the Anti-Defamation League and Color of Change urged big corporations Wednesday to pause Facebook advertising next month over the platform&#8217;s &#8220;long history of allowing racist, violent and verifiably false content.&#8221;</p><p>Neither Facebook nor 360i immediately responded to requests for comment Friday morning. But Carolyn Everson, the vice president of Facebook&#8217;s Global Business Group, told the Journal that it was talking with civil-rights groups and marketers about how to be &#8220;a force for good to fight racial injustice around the world.&#8221;</p><p>Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have <strong>faced backlash in recent weeks</strong> over the company&#8217;s decision to leave up President Trump&#8217;s inflammatory posts about protests against police brutality in Minneapolis. Facebook did <strong>remove Trump campaign ads</strong> on Thursday that featured a red triangle, a symbol the Nazis used to mark political prisoners in concentration camps. The Trump campaign claimed the symbol is linked to Antifa, a far-left &#8220;anti-fascist movement,&#8221; which the president has called a terrorist organization.</p></p></div></p></div>]]></content:encoded>
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