NArP’s Derrick Johnson, in the midst of leading a corporate boycott against the largest social media company, told CNBC on Monday that Facebook should be a place to target ads but not hate. “It is a platform. It is a useful tool for targeting ads,” said the CEO of the …
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg: Boycott of advertisers on Facebook will end “very soon” | Technology
Mark Zuckerberg has rejected the threat of a punishing boycott by top advertisers pressing Facebook to take a firmer stance on hate speech and said they will be back “soon enough.” According to a report from tech news site The Information, the founder and CEO of Facebook sees the boycott …
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg loses $ 7.2B from Facebook advertising boycotts
Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg took a $ 7.2 billion hit after multiple companies withdrew their Facebook ads, citing the company’s failure by police to hate speech and disinformation on its site. The company’s shares fell 8.3 percent on Friday, the most in three months after Unilever, one of the world’s largest …
Read More »Facebook will start to warn people when they share old news
Facebook is launching a new feature to warn users if they are about to share a news article that is over 90 days old, the social media platform announced Thursday. Facebook said the feature aims to help users have “the context they need to make informed decisions” about what to …
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