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Athletic clothing brand North Face on Friday became the first high-profile advertiser to announce a boycott of Facebook’s ad platform. Retweeting a post from the NAACP which said that Facebook “no longer simply negligent, but in fact, complacent in the spread of misinformation, despite the irreversible damage to our democracy,” North Face said it was …
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An influential digital advertising agency reportedly urged its clients to boycott Facebook over the social media giant’s failure to combat hate speech. New York-based 360i encouraged clients Thursday to pull their Facebook spending for July in support of civil-rights’ groups call for an advertising boycott of the company, according to The Wall Street Journal. The …
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Facebook has announced it will take down Trump-campaign ads displaying an Antifa symbol, because that symbol was once used by Nazis to designate political prisoners. The symbol of a red, upside-down triangle is displayed on Antifa merchandise sold online, which the Trump-campaign used for an ad attacking the left-wing group. “The red triangle is an …
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Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on Thursday outlined plans to improve minority representation in the higher ranks of the company. In a blog post on the social network’s website, the chief operating officer said Facebook will have 30 percent more people of color, including 30 percent more black employees, in leadership positions within the next five years. …
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A number of U.S. civil-rights groups are calling on major advertisers to pull their ads from Facebook to protest what they say is the mammoth social media company’s “repeated failure” to adequately address the proliferation of hate speech and misinformation on its platform. The Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP along with four other groups announced …
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Athletic clothing brand North Face on Friday became the first high-profile advertiser to announce a boycott of Facebook’s ad platform. Retweeting a post from the NAACP which said that Facebook “no longer simply negligent, but in fact, complacent in the spread of misinformation, despite the irreversible damage to our democracy,” North Face said it was …
