A man passes the shelves of Coca-Cola bottles and cans at a shopping center in Lagos, Nigeria, November 5, 2019. Temilade Adelaja | Reuters Coca-Cola announced on Friday that it will stop paid advertising on all social media platforms worldwide for at least 30 days. The company said it would …
Read More »Facebook will ban hate speech in its ads
Facebook President and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a hearing for the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee in Washington on October 23, 2019. Erin Scott | Reuters Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday that the company will change its policies to ban hate speech in its ads. Under its …
Read More »Unilever halts Facebook and Twitter advertising for the rest of 2020 due to the ‘polarized atmosphere’ in the US.
An employee straightens a row of bottles of Dove shampoo, a product of the Anglo-Dutch company Unilever. Tengku Bahar | AFP | fake pictures Unilever said Friday it would pause advertising for the brand on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in the United States “at least until the end of the …
Read More »Roger Stone’s former prosecutor says the Justice Department lobbied to give his friend Trump a break
Roger Stone leaves after a state hearing in the criminal case against him filed by Special Adviser Robert Mueller at the United States District Court in Washington, USA. USA, March 14, 2019. Joshua Roberts | Reuters A prosecutor who helped win the conviction of President Donald Trump’s friend Roger Stone …
Read More »Twitter signals another Trump tweet for violating his policies
United States President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office before signing an executive order related to social media regulation on May 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump’s executive order could lead to attempts to punish companies like Twitter and Google for trying to point out factual inconsistencies in social …
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