FILE PHOTO: The logo for Procter & Gamble Co. is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., June 27, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid(Reuters) – Procter & Gamble said on Wednesday it will not make any announcements about its activities on advertising platforms, in response to…
Photo: Mandel Ngan (Getty Images)The landmark antitrust hearing earlier this week had a little bit of everything: tantrums over mandated masks, questions about cancel culture, and, of course, diapers dot com. And while a lot of us here might’ve predicted some of the turns that unfolded over the six and a half ungodly hours of…
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on October 23, 2019, in Washington, DC about how his company will handle false and misleading information by political leaders during the 2020 campaign.Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images)As noted in Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s post, today is the day the public is supposed to…
There’s a lot going on this summer. The presidential race is building steam, civil rights protestors are still in the streets, the pandemic is taking a nasty turn, Hamilton is on Disney+. Amid all those news events—and partly because of them—businesses, activists, and lawmakers are zeroing in on an issue that seems less dramatic but…
It seems like this is what prompted TikTok to announce that it would launch a $200 million fund to help people stay on the service. Unfortunately, the fund has conditions, like a minimum age of 18, and you need to meet a set of conditions for acceptance, including how frequently you post. Depending on how…
FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo(Reuters) – PepsiCo Inc (PEP.O) will stop advertising on Facebook Inc (FB.O), FOX Business Network reported here on Sunday, citing sources. The halt on advertising will run through July and August, the report said.…
Image: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)It’s been weeks since Mark Zuckerberg pledged to wipe voter suppression from the site, thanks, perhaps, to a grim internal civil rights audit which called Facebook’s measures to curb voter suppression and racism “reactive and piecemeal,” or, maybe, the ad boycott. How’s it going over there?Not great, according to ProPublica. In…
What began as a relatively small effort by activist organizations to hold Facebook accountable for perceived policy failings has snowballed into a mass corporate backlash — and a rare moment of discomfort for a company that enjoys its status as one of tech’s untouchable giants. As the #StopHateforProfit campaign continues to attract surprisingly mainstream corporations…
(Reuters) – Organizers of a growing Facebook Inc (FB.O) advertising boycott said they saw “no commitment to action” after meeting with Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday. More than 900 advertisers have signed on to the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign, organized by civil rights groups to pressure the world’s largest social media network to…
(Reuters) – Organizers of a growing Facebook Inc (FB.O) advertising boycott said they saw “no commitment to action” after meeting with Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday. More than 900 advertisers have signed on to the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign, organized by civil rights groups to pressure the world’s largest social media network to…
The accounts spent more than $300,000 in Facebook and Instagram ads and had amassed 260,000 followers on Facebook and 61,500 on Instagram. “The people behind this activity used fake accounts … to pose as residents of Florida, post and comment on their own content to make it appear more popular than it is, evade enforcement, and…
Portion of a new Facebook ad run by President Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, with an unidentified photo of Ukraine used to depict “chaos and violence”Screenshot: Facebook/Donald J. Trump. Photograph on the right by Mstyslav Chernov.President Donald Trump’s latest Facebook ad campaign uses a photo of protesters clashing with police, and suggests there will be “chaos…
Image copyright Mstyslav Chernov Image caption The image of protesters in Ukraine was taken in 2014 A post by Donald Trump’s official Facebook account purports to show violence in the US but is in fact of an event in another country. The advert shows one image of Mr Trump in a calm setting talking to…
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The 2020 election was going to be contentious no matter what, and it should come as no surprise that tons of misinformation is being slung around Facebook by those convinced that (reasonable) systems like voting-by-mail are, in some way, perpetuating some gigantic fraud. You probably already recognize which friends of yours peddle BS on social…
Trump campaign pushes Facebook ads bashing TikTok
