Verizon (VZ) – Get report became the largest company to remove its advertising from Facebook (full board) – Get report and Facebook-owned Instagram about what, and a growing number of companies and organizations say, is the social media company’s inaction to stop hate speech on its platforms. The communications giant …
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San Francisco – Verizon is joining a growing movement to deflect Facebook advertising in an effort to pressure the company to do more to prevent the sharing of racist and violence-inspiring information on its social media service. The decision announced Thursday by one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies is …
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FILE PHOTO: The Verizon logo is seen on the side of a truck in New York City, USA, October 13, 2016. REUTERS / Brendan McDermid (Reuters) – Verizon Communications Inc said on Thursday it was pausing advertising on Facebook Inc. after broad support for a campaign that called on the …
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Text size Cindy Ord / Getty Images There weren’t many big surprises at Apple CEO Tim Cook’s keynote on Monday at the company’s World Developers Conference, but there was enough news to keep the bulls in stocks happy. Shares of Apple (ticker: AAPL) on Tuesday continued their march into the …
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