Here are all the companies boycotting Facebook over hate speech and misinformation:
, pressuring large companies to halt advertising with a company they say doesn’t stop “bad actors using the platform to do harm” at least through the month of July.on Friday that it is halting all U.S. paid advertising with Facebook “until stricter policies are put in place to stop racist, violent or hateful content and misinformation from circulating on the platform,” but this commitment does not apply to Facebook-owned Instagram.
On June 19, fellow outdoor apparel store REI committed to an advertising boycott of both Facebook and Instagram for the month of July,On the same day, freelancing platform Upwork alsoRinging in the trifecta of outdoor goods stores, Patagonia joined the boycott on June 21, that effective immediately it would pull all ads on Facebook and Instagram through at least the end of July “pending meaningful action from the social media giant.”
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