Two weeks later, Facebook announced that Zuckerberg would deliver a speech at Georgetown University laying out his thinking on “free expression.” He and Clegg previewed the speech with some of the civil rights leaders. Zuckerberg would be doubling down on the politicians’ exemption, while daring to draw a connection between Facebook and the importance of free speech in U.S. civil rights history, from Frederick Douglass to Martin Luther King Jr.
After the speech sparked a firestorm, Zuckerberg convened a dinner with civil rights leaders at his home in Palo Alto in early November. “The last time I was in a room with all of those leaders, the other person at the table was Barack Obama,” Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color of Change, told me last fall. It was a pleasant enough discussion, but he said it solidified for him that civil rights weren’t a priority at Facebook’s highest levels.
It started on May 29, when President Trump posted — on both Twitter and Facebook — a note about a possible federal response to protests in Minnesota: “Any difficulty and we will assume control, but when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Trump would later say he was simply warning that looting can lead to violence, though many saw the tweet as a dog whistle.
“I’m seeing Mark’s face as he’s trying to explain to Sherrilyn Ifill” — the president of the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund — “why something isn’t voter suppression. He’s trying to talk down one of the most important voting rights litigators in the country,” Robinson told me. Gupta says she went into the call eager to hear Zuckerberg’s rationale for dealing with the posts. But she told me, “I was completely dissatisfied with it. It was completely confounding and did not make sense.
Jim Steyer, who heads Common Sense Media, a group focused on improving the media landscape for families and children, knew Matt Rivitz, one of the two leaders of Sleeping Giants, and they had a conversation with Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. Along with Common Sense, the ADL began spreading word through progressive political circles that their small coalition was thinking of pushing for a one-month ad boycott of Facebook.
Censorship sucks.
Will Zuckerberg cave?
They 800 hundred companies are owed by one conglomerate
DeleteFacebookNow
Anything that does not concur with the conventions of the cultural revolution can be deemed hate speech. When corporations police public opinion we have a real problem
Police it so much that people no longer want to use it
Awesome
Somebody needs to develop a new and better Facebook.
DeleteFacebook
This is censorship and it should not be allowed! I can't believe people are dumb enough to sacrifice freedom of speech in the name of political correctness. Better to have hurt feelings than censorship and a my way or the highway mentality! These companies are horrible! Facebook
Demanding it censor opposing viewpoints. There, fixed it for you.
Facebook and News Corp - both are cancers on society
Call it what it is ... FASCIST LIBERALS ARE BOYCOTTING FACEBOOK UNTIL ANYTHING THEY DON'T LIKE IS LABELED ' HATE SPEECH '
Facebook is shit. Ever since I watched the absolute garbage that was the 2016 election and propaganda that was delivered unchecked to ignorant boomers, I have stayed away from it. It’s a breeding ground for hate. The mainstream 4chan
This is on instagram and Facebook doesn't see anything wrong about it after several reports from different accounts. But they detect female nipples in less than 1 minute.
Boycotting is a two way street. Consumers can disengage from companies as well.
The use of FACEBOOK groups to organize HATE AND VIOLENCE against USA police around the Nation must be stopped !
The HATETrump crowd is the worst! The continued hate directed toward American patriots is appalling!
Thanks dear ones for fighting for change
StopHateForProfit BoycottFacebook DeleteFacebookNow
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Facebook will be fine. They are doing the right thing.
You should see Parler just awful and Twitter needs some work too.
That's extortion and it is a felony under federal law. Why hasn't Bill Barr started arresting these felons?
Well Think Mr. ZUCKERBERG has finally come FACE TO FACE WITH HIS THIEVING SELF?
Censor everything coming out from the terrorist state of Israel.
DeleteFacebook
I vote thst EVERYONE delete their FB page and see what happens!!
Hundreds of companies are boycotting Facebook, demanding the social media giant do more to monitor hate speech. I hope they don't. I like reading MSNBC, CBS, CNN. ABC, MSNBC and Politico tweets,
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