TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Jun 29, 2020, 12: 14 IST
NEW DELHI: More than 160 advertisers — including PepsiCo, Unilever, Starbucks, Verizon Communications Inc and The North Face — have joined the ‘
Stop Hate for Profit
‘ campaign and pulled off advertisements from social media, especially Facebook, to protest against the platforms’ inability to stop hate speech and misinformation.
- The Stop Hate for Profit campaign was started by US civil rights groups earlier this month who said that social media was doing too little to stop hate speech on its platforms. The campaign is organized by six US non-profits including the Anti-Defamation League and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
- The campaign follows the death of George Floyd, a US black man who died in police custody, which has triggered worldwide protests against racism and police brutality. Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes while detaining him on May 25.
- Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, w