What's driving the Facebook ad boycott?
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Posted By: StormCnter,
7/5/2020 12:18:17 PM
Facebook is urgently trying to contain the damage from an ad boycott that "numbers more than 300 advertisers," said Tiffany Hsu and Mike Isaac at The New York Times. The boycott, which demands that Facebook curb hate speech on its platforms, was started by civil rights organizations and other advocacy groups after Facebook refused to take down inflammatory posts from President Trump, including one that warned, "When the looting starts, the shooting starts." Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg initially "struck a defiant tone," insisting that he would not put curbs on speech. But as the boycott has snowballed, Facebook
Reply 1 - Posted by:
curious1 7/5/2020 12:28:45 PM (No. 467861)
The socialists reveal themselves and the companies they control.
Get a list of the advertisers boycotting.
They want censorship. Lets give them empty bank accounts.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
davew 7/5/2020 12:29:58 PM (No. 467863)
The current ad boycott is just another attempt to have Facebook block political advertising for President Trump. The woke media still blames Facebook for giving Cambridge Analytics the "secret data" that allowed Brad Pascale to steal the 2016 election through big data alchemy. In fact, because of the decline in retail brand sales due to the pandemic most of these people were going to cut back on ads anyway and this was a great way to get some virtue signaling mileage out of their cost savings strategy.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 7/5/2020 12:45:25 PM (No. 467885)
Those protesting the inflammatory speech are mad that the truth is burning up their false arguments. To them, anything, they disagree with, is hate speech.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 7/5/2020 12:47:21 PM (No. 467890)
I don't actually care. Never have been on or near Fakebook. Let them fight each other to the death, doesn't affect me at all.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Smart11344 7/5/2020 1:34:22 PM (No. 467937)
Sadly, I was on FB for about a month. I consider it a major mistake. That was 10 years ago when FB didn't seem to be so evil.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 7/5/2020 1:51:24 PM (No. 467951)
The simple subtext is that Facebook isn't anti-Trump enough.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/5/2020 2:22:10 PM (No. 467981)
"Hate" speech is code for Conservative, pro American and patriotic. They are not fooling anyone.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/5/2020 2:44:01 PM (No. 468000)
I don't have Facebook, because I don't really care to see pictures of everybody's food, and their ohh so precious, beautiful, handsome children and their cute cats and dogs. I can stay in contact with my relatives by phone or email. From what I can tell from the wifes Facebook account, it's almost more advertisement than personal content, anyway. Besides, Zukerberg is a billionaire, so he should tell them to pound sand, but he won't!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 7/5/2020 3:03:27 PM (No. 468022)
There is some interesting material here.
Most of the advertisers that are boycotting have minimal Facebook budgets. So, their departure doesn't mean much to Facebook's bottom line, but it still allows the advertisers the appearance of being "woke" by leaving. That probably hurts Facebook more that any financial loss. I'll bet the author of this woke article knows this, too.
Think of how embarrassing it would be if 1000 advertisers left, even though the each spent less than
$1K per year advertising for their small business.
I still have a Facebook account. I've thought about deleting it, but I do visit it about once a month just to touch base. I haven't posted in a very long time. Deleting my account might be the most effective way to make an impact..
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
or gate 7/5/2020 3:08:59 PM (No. 468026)
Communists and politically correct zombies
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
columba 7/5/2020 3:46:24 PM (No. 468066)
The "hate" speech is primarily subjectively heard by LBJQRFD-etc people who are offended (read" petty ego) when someone express a disbelief in the myth that we are told about the "naturalness" of anal sex.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 7/5/2020 3:47:19 PM (No. 468068)
Don't be fooled. Facebook is actively engaged in 1st amendment trampling. We were watching a video that had 4.8 million views. The video was pointing out all of the events that somehow conveniently have occurred leading up the the election. Before we finished watching, it stopped and Facebook displayed a message stating that the arguments posted had been debunked by their fact checkers. No contrary facts were presented and, if they had been, the only possible retort that resulted in "debunking" would have been a denial by some authority that Facebook would argue holds the truth.
The clear message was that Facebook had set itself up as the clear arbiter of the Truth. As such, it is no more a "platform" than Twitter or Google. If we are to survive as a free nation, social media must be reigned in and constrained to honor their service as communication platforms. Their algorithms and checkers must be constrained or removed!
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If you are on any social media platform, you are wasting your life and your time. Get off all of them! You do not need them in your lives. I left Facebook 6 years ago and haven't missed a beat! Now that I have retired, I'm going to delete my Linked In profile as well. Then I will be unknown to whomever wishes to snoop... Live life in real time in person face to face with people! The little hit of brain candy when you get a like, isn't worth what it is doing to your life!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Axeman 7/5/2020 6:22:49 PM (No. 468199)
I completely deleted my FB account. I miss the connections but the ignorant, idiotic, fascist, racist, narrow minded, simplistic, angry, hateful comments and memes that were being passed around and kept coming up at the top of my feed were too much for me to wade through. I know a lot of people believed they meant well and sooner or later they would come to their senses, but I wont be there to see it now.
No regrets.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/5/2020 6:53:31 PM (No. 468243)
Deleted my account around the same time this boycott started. I don't miss it a bit and I gained back about 20 minutes a day. Downside is now I''ll have to start talking to family again.
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