[ May 3, 2024 ]
Apparently, there is not enough censorship on social media for these craven coward corporations. Cowardly corporations are digging their own graves (and ours.)
Part of me is enjoying starving these social media channels. The worm turns on those who blocked and banned us, but this whole cancel environment is ruinous and Orwellian. It’s Mao and Stalin.
“As a group, businessmen have been withdrawing for decades from the ideological battlefield, disarmed by the deadly combination of altruism and Pragmatism. Their public policy has consisted in appeasing, compromising and apologizing: appeasing their crudest, loudest antagonists; compromising with any attack, any lie, any insult; apologizing for their own existence. Abandoning the field of ideas to their enemies, they have been relying on lobbying, i.e., on private manipulations, on pull, on seeking momentary favors from government officials. Today, the last group one can expect to fight for capitalism is the capitalists.”
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Related: Facebook will start flagging some political content that violates its policies
Facebook, Twitter Tumble on Unilever’s Social-Media Pullback
By: Bloomberg, June 26, 2020:
By Kurt Wagner and Thomas Buckley, June 26, 2020:
Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. shares tumbled Friday after Unilever, one of the world’s largest advertisers, said it will halt all U.S. advertising on both platforms, fueling concerns that other major consumer brands may follow suit.
Unilever, which owns names like Hellmann’s mayonnaise and Axe shower gel and has an annual advertising budget of almost $8 billion, said it won’t advertise on Facebook, Twitter and Facebook-owned Instagram for the rest of the year because of the hate speech and polarized politics that users often post.
“Continuing to advertise on these platforms at this time would not add value to people and society,” Unilever said in an emailed statement. “We will be monitoring ongoing and will revisit our current position if necessary.”
Facebook shares extended a decline after the news. The stock had dropped 4.6% earlier Friday, then fell 8.3% to $216.08 at the close. Twitter shares dropped 7.4% to $29.05.
Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg responded Friday to the growing criticism about misinformation on the site, announcing the company would label all voting-related posts with a link encouraging users to look at its new voter information hub, and expanded its definition of prohibited hate speech for in advertising.
Unilever’s decision follows similar moves by a growing list of high-profile consumer companies, including outdoor gear company Patagonia and Verizon Communications Inc., which claim that technology platforms — particularly Facebook — profit off user posts that promote hate and spread misinformation.
A consortium of civil rights and other advocacy groups, including Color of Change and the Anti-Defamation League, have called on advertisers to stop spending on Facebook-owned platforms for the month of July to protest the company’s policies. Honda Motor Co.’s U.S. unit said Friday that it would join the boycott and halt advertising on Facebook and Instagram in July. Unilever’s commitment extends that pledge through 2020, and adds rival social network Twitter to the mix, which has also struggled to deal with offensive posts but has recently taken a more active stance than Facebook in some cases related to U.S. President Donald Trump.
More brands joined the fray as the day wore on. Coca-Cola Co. said it will pause paid advertising on all social media for at least 30 days. Hershey Co. intends to halt Facebook spending in July, according to Business Insider.
So far, the boycott organizers say that more than 100 companies are participating.
“We invest billions of dollars each year to keep our community safe and continuously work with outside experts to review and update our policies,” a Facebook spokeswoman said in a statement, adding that the company has banned 250 White supremacist organizations from its platforms. “We know we have more work to do, and we’ll continue to work with civil rights groups, GARM, and other experts to develop even more tools, technology and policies to continue this fight.”
Facebook to Label All Voting-Related Posts, Not Just Trump’s
Facebook has had a rocky relationship with civil rights groups for years, which have fought to diversify Facebook’s board of directors, accused the company of enabling voter suppression tactics, and took issue with Facebook’s decision to name the Daily Caller, a right-wing news outlet with ties to white nationalism, as one of its formal fact-checking partners in 2019.
Frustrations were renewed after Zuckerberg said that a series of posts from Trump about race-related protests were not a violation of the company’s rules. In one last month, Trump said that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” a post that was flagged on Twitter as a violation but not on Facebook. A number of unhappy Facebook employees staged a walkout to protest the decision.
As the boycott has grown over the past week, Facebook has been reaching out to advertisers to share details about the company’s existing policies, and its efforts to automate the flagging and removal of hate speech on its service. It’s also been highlighting its work to increase voter registration, and on Friday Zuckerberg said the company would now prohibit ads that target certain races or ethnic groups as dangerous. In an email to marketers this week, the company said that it bases its policies on principles, not business interests.
Twitter, which has not been the target of the formal ad boycott but has faced similar criticisms as Facebook over the years, says that Unilever reached out to alert the company of its decision before making the announcement publicly.
“Our mission is to serve the public conversation and ensure Twitter is a place where people can make human connections, seek and receive authentic and credible information, and express themselves freely and safely,” said Sarah Personette, Twitter’s vice president of global client solutions, in a statement. “We are respectful of our partners’ decisions and will continue to work and communicate closely with them during this time.”
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21 Comments
3 years ago
They think it is good marketing….
At the risk of being redundant their hope is
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3 years ago
Corporate America = Mob Rule and silencing of informed opinion.
3 years ago
Reply to
gfmucci .
They don’t count as American anymore. All transnational corporations devoted to the New World Order and against America and what she was founded on.
3 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
…and THAT is a problem for any nation whose major businesses are predominantly transnational. They become a parasite to their home nation.
3 years ago
Reply to
gfmucci .
When progressives have achieved their goals, how will the transnationals produce any income at all?
3 years ago
More products to never purchase again. I’m really going to miss Hellmann’s. Not too much of a fan of mayonnaise but, when I do use it, I really liked Hellmann’s.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
The more things change the more they stay the same. This reminds me of the economist, the late Antony Sutton’s work and books. I first became aware of him due to his book on Skull & Bones. It was not his most significant work. More significant were “WALL STREET AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION,” “WALL STREET AND FDR” and “WALL STREET AND THE Rise of Hitler.” All these I was able to borrow through inter-library loan. His 3 volume book done while at the Hoover Institution eluded me until a stumbled on it in a university library looking for something else. ”
“Western Technology And Soviet Economic Development 1917 To 1930, 1930 To 1945, 1945 To 1965” He presented facts like Woodrow Wilson issuing a U.S. passport to Leon Trotsky right up to a Army major attached to Lend Lease discovering too late that the FDR administration had transferred Manhattan Project research to the USSR as well as materials. His name was Major Jordan.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Kraft mayo ain’t bad. I use AXE. That will not be hard to replace.
3 years ago
Reply to
VTS
I own several axes. Some of which are close to a century old. But, some of my newer ones hold an edge rather well. Old axes. New axes. They both work the same.
I’m not fond of Kraft mayonnaise. But one has to do what one has to do. Lots of Unilever products … so many NOT to purchase.
3 years ago
Hope they pull all their ads. The only loser is Twitter, etc.. I won’t miss any of their ads as I never use twitter, facebooke or any of the rest.
3 years ago
Reply to
Chuck C
The lesson is that we must buy products from and support small businesses, not crappy global corporations.
3 years ago
Reply to
Chuck C
The lesson is that we must buy products from and support small businesses, not crappy global corporations.
3 years ago
3 years ago
They are still working on gun confiscation but censorship is alive and thriving!
3 years ago
“a Facebook spokeswoman said in a statement, adding that the company has banned 250 White supremacist organizations from its platforms.” The hypocrisy of it all is positvely evil. Not a word about the real terrorists among us – Muslims – who daily commit bloodthirsty attacks against those they disagree with. They can continue to spout their toxic twaddle on Farcebook and other phoney-baloney social sites as well. No, it’s the White ‘supremacist’ groups ( a handful of them? ) that pose the greatest risk to global security.
The low-life, hypocritical scum running BS platforms like Fartbook are scared shitless of Islam and Muslims so they will not restrain them in any significant way. White racists are the real global threat they dare tell us. Talk about craven!
3 years ago
Homemade mayonnaise is the best….
3 years ago
Where do these large (dare I say capitalist) corporations get off with the notion that anyone gives a sh*t about their political stances? Just because they don’t notice a drop in their bottom line, they misinterpret their stance as meeting public approval, like adding two and two and arriving at five.
I don’t agree with Nike and their lionizing of Colin Kaepernick but their shoes fit my feet comfortably.
3 years ago
From whose butt were pulled 250 white supremacist groups?
3 years ago
Reply to
aebe
“Daily Caller, a right-wing news outlet with ties to white nationalism” This might be a clue.
