Organizers of a Facebook boycott campaign that has the support of thousands of major advertisers have slammed Mark Zuckerberg for doing ‘just about nothing’ to remove hate speech from the site.
Leaders of the #StopHateForProfit campaign lashed out after a ‘disappointing’ meeting with the social media CEO and other top brass which they said showed Facebook ‘is not yet ready to address the vitriolic hate on their platform’.
Anti-Defamation League CEO Johnathan Greenblatt, who was at the virtual meeting on Tuesday, said ‘we saw little and heard just about nothing’ about how the social network is planning to remove toxic content.
Jessica Gonzalez, from activist group Free Press, added: ‘This isn’t over. We will continue to expand the boycott until Facebook takes our demands seriously. We won’t be distracted by Facebook’s spin today or any day.’
Campaigners have slammed Mark Zuckerberg (left) and Sheryl Sandberg (right) for doing ‘almost nothing’ to remove hate speech after a ‘disappointing’ meeting
The hour-long meeting included CEO Zuckerberg, his chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and other Facebook executives in discussion with the Anti-Defamation League, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Color of Change and other groups.
It was seen by Facebook as an opportunity to hear from boycott organizers and ‘reaffirm’ a commitment to combating hate on the platform, a spokesperson told AFP.
‘They want Facebook to be free of hate speech and so do we,’ the spokesperson said, noting steps the social network has taken to ban white supremacist groups and fight interference with voting or the census.
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