Canada’s Banks Join Campaign To Boycott Facebook
July 4, 2020
7:50 am
Canada’s biggest lenders confirmed on Friday they had joined a widespread boycott of Facebook Inc. begun by U.S. civil rights groups.
The groups are seeking to pressure the world’s largest social media platform to take concrete steps to block hate speech.
More than 400 brands have pulled advertising on Facebook in response to the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign, begun after the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25.
Among Canadian lenders who have vowed to pause advertising on Facebook …
