Facebook faces boycott push from NAACP, ADL, and other civil rights groups

Facebook let hateful messages spread for years. Now civil rights groups want to drain the company's ad revenue. The Wall Street Journal reported that major civil rights organizations, including the NAACP and Anti-Defamation League, have launched an effort to convince big brands to stop giving ad money to Facebook for the month of July. The boycott plan was revealed in an ad in Wednesday's Los Angeles Times, which makes the motivations plainly clear: "They allowed incitement to violence against protestors fighting for racial justice in America in the wake of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks, and so many others. They amplified white nationalists by including news sources with known extremist ties into their 'fact checking' program. They turned a blind eye to blatant voter suppression in their platform." Read more...More about Facebook, Donald Trump, Adl, Naacp, and Facebook Ads