Hate Speech: 400 Brands Set To Boycott Facebook
July 1, 2020
6:29 am
Advertisements for more than 400 brands, including Coca-Cola and Starbucks, are due to vanish from Facebook on Wednesday, after the failure of last-ditch talks to stop a boycott over hate speech on the site.
U.S. civil rights groups have enlisted the multinationals to help pressure the social media giant into taking concrete steps to block hate speech in the wake of the death of George Floyd and amid a national reckoning over racism.
Facebook executives, including Carolyn Everson, Vice President of Global Business Solutions and Neil Potts, Public Policy Director, held at least two meetings with advertisers on Tuesday, the …
