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Protesting hate speech ADL and NAACP want
companies to stop running Facebook ads in July
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harassment,
remove all
misinformation
participating groups say,
and release data about how
many reports of hate speech it
received and what actions were
taken in response.
Several large companies
have joined the campaign. The
clothing retailers Patagonia and
The North Face; outdoor gear
company REI; and Upwork, a
freelancing platform, will not
be posting ads on Facebook in
the month of July.
“We will pull all ads on
Facebook and Instagram,
effective immediately, through
at least the end of July, pending
meaningful action from the
social media giant,” Patagonia
tweeted Sunday. “For too
long, Facebook has failed to
take sufficient steps to stop
the spread of hateful lies and
dangerous propaganda on its
platform. From secure elections
to a global pandemic to racial
justice, the stakes are too high
to sit back and let the company
continue to be complicit in
spreading disinformation and
fomenting fear and hatred.”
The North Face’s tweet was
shorter: “We’re n. We’re Out @
Facebook.”
The campaign is calling
on Facebook to enhance its
moderation of posts, remove all
ads with misinformation and
Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images
Mark Zuckerberg, seen in 2019, has repeatedly stuck by his hands-off approach to problematic speech.
hate, and release data on hate
speech on the platform.
Zuckerberg has repeatedly
stuck by his hands-off
approach to problematic
speech. In July, he told Vox that
he would allow Holocaust denial
on the platform. Months later,
in an address to Georgetown
University, he said, “Our values
at Facebook are inspired by
the American tradition, which
is more supportive of free
expression than anywhere else.”
In response to that stance,
critics have said Facebook
must do more to police false or
potentially inciting statements,
including from Trump. After
allowing Trump’s tweets on
mail-in ballots, Zuckerberg told
Fox News that Facebook should
not be “the arbiter of truth.” Days
later, after the social network
allowed another Trump post that
said “when the looting starts, the
shooting starts,” some employees
staged a virtual walkout.
On June 5, Zuckerberg posted
on Facebook that the company
would review its policies
around threats of state use of
force and voter suppression.
Along with the ADL and
the NAACP, the campaign
is being sponsored by the
organizations Sleeping Giants,
Color of Change, Free Press
and Common Sense.
By Ben Sales
(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation
League, along with the NAACP
and other civil rights groups, is
calling on corporations not to ad-
vertise on Facebook in July because
of the social media platform’s un-
willingness to police hate speech.
The campaign, which
launches Wednesday with a
full-page ad in the Los Angeles
Times, charges that Facebook
has not done enough to combat
hate and disinformation on
its platform. It points to CEO
Mark Zuckerberg’s repeated
refusal to moderate posts
for misinformation, even
as extremists have used the
platform to incite to violence,
and criticizes the social
networking giant for allowing
President Donald Trump’s
recent misleading posts
regarding mail-in ballots, even
as Twitter appended a fact-
check to those posts.
Also, the campaign faults
Facebook for designating
Breitbart a trusted news source
and the Daily Caller a fact-
checker even though both
publications have worked with
white nationalists.
Facebook earned nearly $70
billion in ad revenue in 2019,
comprising more than 98% of
its total revenue.
“Could they protect and
support Black users?” the Los
Angeles Times ad reads. “Could
they call out Holocaust denial
as hate? Could they help get
out the vote? They absolutely
could. But they are actively
choosing not to do so.”
An ADL spokesperson
told the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency that the campaign
is not targeting any specific
Facebook advertisers. It is
also demanding that the
company do more to respond
to users who are the victims of
targeted harassment, including
enhancing its moderation of
posts.
The ADL has called on tech
platforms for years to do more
to combat hate. Recently the
group has taken particular aim
at Facebook, the most widely
used platform in the world.
In November, the ADL hosted
comedian Sacha Baron Cohen
for an address excoriating
Facebook for allowing hate
speech.
“We have long seen how
ADL
told JTA that
about our
policy positions and projects
independent from all of
Facebook must
ads labeled as
or hate, the
groups
are
our donors, including Sheryl
Sandberg. Her support has
never been conditional on our
engagement with Facebook
or any other technology
company.”
The no-ad campaign is
demanding a range of actions
from Facebook. They include
special moderation procedures
for people who are targeted
because of their identity, as
well as live moderators who
can speak to users who have
experienced a high level of
Facebook has allowed some of
the worst elements of society
into our homes and our lives,”
CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said
in a statement about the ad
campaign. “Our organizations
have tried individually and
collectively to push Facebook
to make their platforms safer,
but they have repeatedly failed
to take meaningful action.”
In October, following the
attack on a synagogue in Halle,
Germany, the ADL accepted
a $2.5 million donation from
Facebook’s
Sandberg.
accepting
Greenblatt said he was “grateful
for her commitment to fighting
hate in all of its forms.”
Last week, an
spokesperson
“ADL’s decisions
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