UK party joins Facebook ad boycott
Channel: 11 World News & Stats
Date: 2020-07-13

Britain’s main opposition Labour party said on Sunday it has joined a Facebook advertising boycott over allegations that the social network has failed to sufficiently curb hateful content. Hundreds of advertisers, including big-name consumer brands, have suspended advertising with the social media giant as part of the #StopHateForProfit” campaign. nior lawmaker Rachel Reeves told All MPs in the Labour party use Facebook to get across our message. But what we’re not doing at the moment is advertising on Facebook.
She said the company must “take more responsibility for the lies and propaganda that are sometimes put out there on Facebook... and take tougher action on hate crime and hate speech”.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg last week met organisers of the #StopHateForProfit coalition that is pressing for more aggressive action on hateful content and disinformation. The activists said they were disappointed and vowed to press on with their campaign which has grown to nearly 1,000 advertisers.
It was galvanised by the wave of protests around the world calling for social justice and racial equity in the wake of the death in US police custody of an unarmed black man, George Floyd.

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