Facebook faces advertiser revolt, including from Verizon, REI, others

[Gagaloo911 12,959]

Facebook faces advertiser revolt over failure to address hate speech.

Several companies have suspended advertising on Facebook over the company’s failure to address hate speech on the platform.

The outdoor apparel and product retailers the North Face, REI, and Patagonia have pledged not to pay for advertising on Facebook platforms as part of the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign, launched Wednesday by advocacy groups including the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, and the Color Of Change. The freelance job listing site Upwork and the internet company Mozilla have also joined the pledge.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/22/facebook-hate-speech-advertisers-north-face

 

Verizon is pulling its advertising from Instagram and Facebook, the biggest name so far in a growing movement to boycott the social network for not doing enough to stop hate speech on its platforms.

The company said on Thursday it will join other companies including Ben & Jerry’s, Patagonia and REI in suspending advertising from Facebook-owned platforms until the company “can create an acceptable solution that makes us comfortable”.

The “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign was launched Wednesday... It asks advertisers to pressure the tech giant to adopt stricter policies against racist and hateful content on its platforms by pausing all spending on advertising with the company for the month of July.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/25/verizon-advertising-facebook-hate-speech-boycott

[River 127,556]

Their report system is dumb, you can report multiple times about racist groups and they tells you that it's not violating their rules, but then you check their rules and it says that hate speech is not allowed.

Or you report a fake account with pictures of someone that you know and they tell you that it's not a fake account lol

 

[NotDoctor 708]

Money talks so I'll be interested to see if this causes any changes, if this sorta thing doesn't I don't know that anything can

[iAstroLeo 14,452]

Facebook needs to die ASAP

Which is not going to happen since they own WhatsApp, Instagram..

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3 minutes ago, iAstroLeo said:

Facebook needs to die ASAP

Which is not going to happen since they own WhatsApp, Instagram..

I lowkey want society to have a fat reset and go back to the days of AIM lmao

[iAstroLeo 14,452]

2 minutes ago, monster said:

I lowkey want society to have a fat reset and go back to the days of AIM lmao

Those were the times.. I never used AIM, I was more a MSN type of guy. Things were so much more simpler  

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Just now, iAstroLeo said:

Those were the times.. I never used AIM, I was more a MSN type of guy. Things were so much more simpler  

I hate our digital age jsjsjs

as an 04 baby, i never got to experience those things and i WISH that i did. Something more simple and humbling rather than something run by a tech giant who is actively spying on its users.. 

[PartySick 172,545]

42 minutes ago, River said:

Their report system is dumb, you can report multiple times about racist groups and they tells you that it's not violating their rules, but then you check their rules and it says that hate speech is not allowed.

Or you report a fake account with pictures of someone that you know and they tell you that it's not a fake account lol

 

I've had posts of mine removed for being pro-gay ("sexually explicit" when the most hardcore thing the guys did was kiss). Yet when anti-choice memes picturing aborted fetuses get posted, they're left up despite how many times they're reported.

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1 hour ago, Gagaloo911 said:

Facebook faces advertiser revolt over failure to address hate speech.

Several companies have suspended advertising on Facebook over the company’s failure to address hate speech on the platform.

The outdoor apparel and product retailers the North Face, REI, and Patagonia have pledged not to pay for advertising on Facebook platforms as part of the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign, launched Wednesday by advocacy groups including the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, and the Color Of Change. The freelance job listing site Upwork and the internet company Mozilla have also joined the pledge.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/22/facebook-hate-speech-advertisers-north-face

 

Verizon is pulling its advertising from Instagram and Facebook, the biggest name so far in a growing movement to boycott the social network for not doing enough to stop hate speech on its platforms.

The company said on Thursday it will join other companies including Ben & Jerry’s, Patagonia and REI in suspending advertising from Facebook-owned platforms until the company “can create an acceptable solution that makes us comfortable”.

The “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign was launched Wednesday... It asks advertisers to pressure the tech giant to adopt stricter policies against racist and hateful content on its platforms by pausing all spending on advertising with the company for the month of July.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/25/verizon-advertising-facebook-hate-speech-boycott

[River 127,556]

2 hours ago, PartySick said:

I've had posts of mine removed for being pro-gay ("sexually explicit" when the most hardcore thing the guys did was kiss). Yet when anti-choice memes picturing aborted fetuses get posted, they're left up despite how many times they're reported.

I reported once a group of pro nazis and it was fine for facebook to keep this group

[Bt1 5,213]

Freedom of expression makes this more complicated that it seems. 

These companies are also Facebook competition in a way or another. 

[Werk 13,166]

@Gagaloo911 Does this mean Mark is racist or against BLM? Asking cause I'm seeing this debate over ATRL