admin | June 26, 2020
Facebook has been criticized for policy decisions that civil rightsgroups claim allowconspiracy theorists toproliferateand harassment to go unpunished.Facebook has been hammered over a failure to punish the account of President Donald Trump, after he posted a message in May that suggested shooting protesters. Trump posted the message to Facebook and Twitter, and Twitter slapped the tweet with a warning label while Facebook dealt no punishment. It was a divisive message from the president, but Facebook has been in a difficult position catering to forces in Washington and the demands of activists, who want ittotake a harder line.On Thursday, a report in The Wall Street Journalsaid Trumps campaign was bewildered by social media companiesthat have penalized him
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admin | June 26, 2020
Verizon said on Thursday it is pulling advertising on Facebook until the company "can create an acceptable solution that makes us comfortable." A company spokesperson said the pause applies to both Facebook and Instagram. It comes as marketers including Ben & Jerry's, Patagonia and REI have also said they plan to pause advertising on the platforms. Facebook's stock was down nearly 2% Thursday evening.
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admin | June 26, 2020
Just briefly Penn's play: The Stagwell Group late Thursday proposed a merger with MDC Partners in a move that would combine two firms led by Mark Penn into a $2 billion agency group.The combined firms would generate $35 million in cost synergies, Penn estimates. Black, Pride: Ben & Jerrys, Chipotle and streaming services are celebrating Pride with campaigns that also elevate the Black community. Black LGBTQ+ individuals were a large part of New York Citys Stonewall Inn protests of 1969, the start of Pride, writes Ad Ages Ilyse Liffreing
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admin | June 26, 2020
Thirty-eight years ago this week, Vincent Chin, an Asian American man, in Detroit, Michigan, died after being attacked because of his race At the time, a growing Japanese auto industry was leading to major job loss in the citys own auto sector, and his killers, two auto workers, mistook him for a Japanese person and used racial slurs when they beat him outside a strip club where he was celebrating his bachelor party. He died from his injuries days later.
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admin | June 26, 2020
CNBC.com's MacKenzie Sigalos brings you the day's top business news headlines, and what to watch as the coronavirus pandemic continues sweeping through the U.S.
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admin | June 26, 2020
Iconic ice cream brand Ben & Jerry's became the latest company to join the growing boycott of Facebook and Instagram ads at the urging of the NAACP and other civil rights advocacy groups. "Ben & Jerrys stands with our friends at the NAACP and Color of Change, the ADL, and all those calling for Facebook to take stronger action to stop its platforms from being used to divide our nation, suppress voters, foment and fan the flames of racism and violence, and undermine our democracy," the company said in a statement Tuesday.
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admin | June 26, 2020
Rakuten Viber, one of the worlds leading messaging apps for free and secure communication, has cut all business ties with social mediagiantFacebook aiming to protect its one billion users. The messaging app will remove Facebook Connect, Facebook SDK, and GIPHY, as well as cease all advertisement spending on the social networking platform, said a press release. Amid the protests that broke out all over the US over the past few weeks, a group of six organisations, including the Anti-Defamation League and NAACP, called on Facebook advertisers to pause their spending on the social networking site during the month of July over the companys inability to protect users from hate speech
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admin | June 24, 2020
Online harassment remains one of the internets hardest problems to fix, and new data suggests the problem is only getting worse for minority groups.
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admin | June 24, 2020
A U.S. Army soldier has been charged with plotting a mass attack on his unit by sending sensitive military information to an occult-based white supremacist group, the Justice Department announced Monday
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admin | June 24, 2020
Dozens attended a demonstration in support of Black Lives Matter in Branson Sunday. Several also attended in counter-protest. Springfield News-Leader Editor's note: This story has been updated with the correct last name of a woman who spoke to reporters and was caught on video
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