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Facebook just isn’t woke enough to just shut down President Trump and his supporters during this election season so companies have begun to pull their advertising dollars from the platform.
Even after Facebook employees staged a virtual walkout and some resigned, so far the freedoms allowed in the First Amendment still apply to Trump.
For weeks now, Facebook employees have been protesting against the company’s speech policy. President Trump’s posts on Facebook are seen by them to be hate speech, or threats of violence, and even voter-suppression tactics. This is what happens when the left doesn’t like what someone with an opposing view dares to say something. That person must be canceled, erased from public view. So, now companies are getting involved. There is an advertising boycott planned for the month of July.
A coalition of non-profit groups, including the NAACP, the Anti-Defamation League, and Sleeping Giants, have formed an organization called Stop Hate For Profit with a simple message. On its website, the group says, “We are asking all businesses to stand in solidarity with our most deeply held American values of freedom, equality and justice and not advertise on Facebook’s services in July.”
The site goes on to accuse Facebook of allowing violence to be incited against Black Lives Matter protesters and elevating news sites like Breitbart and The Daily Caller that have worked with white nationalists.
As you read, it isn’t just President Trump, it’s conservative media sites, too. This is why Facebook must be encouraged to continue to allow all voices on its platform. We already know that the employees aren’t even hiding their contempt for Trump and all conservatives. Give the authoritarian leftists an inch and they’ll take a mile.
Earlier this month, Facebook announced that users will be able to block seeing all political ads. This is in response to critics who say the ads are full of lies.
Facebook and Instagram users will be able to turn off all social issue, electoral or political ads from candidates, Super PACs or other “organizations that have the ‘Paid for by’ political disclaimer on them.”
Facebook hopes to roll out the new feature to all U.S. users over the next few weeks and will aim to make it available in other countries where it monitors elections in the fall.
The company’s ad policy has been under fire from Democrats, namely the Biden campaign, since last year when Facebook doubled down on allowing politicians by lying in ads without being fact checked.
This is a bit different than what Twitter is doing. Twitter is banning political ads altogether. And we know it has taken a fancy to singling out President Trump’s tweets and slapping a warning on them for allegedly violating its policies. Funny, of all the ugly tweets on that site, only Trump’s tweets seem to deserve their new special warnings and Twitter gets publicity for its aggression against the most powerful man in the world.
On Friday, The North Face, an outdoor apparel brand, became the best-known name to join the Stop Hate for Profit boycott campaign. Just hours later, REI joined in, too. Full Story @ Hot Air
Far Left Companies Pull Ads from Facebook Until they Ban Conservative Voices
Several far left companies including: Pepsi, HP, Doritos, Paypal, Adobe and BMW, pulled their ads from Facebook until they ban posts frrom US President Donald Trump.
The companies are only concerned about banning conservative voices. You can bet that radical leftists and violent anarchists who are burning cities and destroying statues are safe with these companies. - Gateway Pundit
Big brands pulling ads from Facebook over hate speech will barely dent its revenue
Companies including The North Face, Patagonia, REI, and Eddie Bauer have thrown their support behind a campaign calling on businesses to pull advertising from Facebook and its Instagram subsidiary through the end of July over allegations that Facebook enables hate speech online. - Yahoo Finance
Facebook's Advertising Boycott Is Gaining Steam
The political controversy that's embroiled Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) in recent weeks isn't going away. In fact, it seems to be getting worse.
It's been weeks since Facebook employees began protesting the company's permissive policy on speech, allowing what they saw as hate speech, threats of violence, and even voter-suppression tactics, at times from the Trump campaign, on the Facebook site. Facebook engineers and others staged a "virtual walkout," and some even resigned, posting sharp criticism of Zuckerberg and his policies as they left.
With the country in the throes of an intense and unique political moment, in the middle of a pandemic and an election season, and after weeks of protests about racial injustice, the tension around Facebook hasn't abated. Now advertisers are getting in on the act. Motley Fool
And the Companies are ...
....Not that it really matters because conservatives seem unable or unwilling to engage in boycotting companies that defecate on us every friggin day ... and these companies know that !
The North Face, outdoor apparel owned by VF Corp (NYSE:VFC)
Dentsu Group - An agency which handles advertising for McCormick, Discover Financial Services, and Unilever among others
PayPal
REI -Recreational Equipment
Ben & Jerry's - 'Woke' Ice Cream
Advertising agency Goodby Silverstein is pulling advertising from Facebook in July - Some of its clients include -
BMW
HP
PayPal
Pepsi
Doritos
Adobe
Comcast
Sonic
StubHub
NFL Network
Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream
Hayden Brown
Modern Farmer
And Growing .....
Time to Break Up Google?
Google has reached a level of monopolization that needs to be taken seriously as a threat to freedom, the free exchange of ideas and political diversity.
Follow along with the logic of your average “woke” Google employee. These employees have been openly arguing for a few years now that Google needs a diverse array of employees shaping Google’s algorithms, or Google will only present to consumers certain information that might exclude diverse views or information.
Concurrently, these same employees have argued that Google need not entertain conservative thoughts or ideas. It was not that long ago that Google employees revolted at the idea of Kay Cole James, a black female and president of the Heritage Foundation, sitting on a Google advisory board designed to ensure diversity in Google’s artificial intelligence practices. Full Story @ Daily Wire
