Good morning to you,
So you may have heard that there's some pressure on Facebook to clean up its platform. Last week, a slew of brands got on board the Stop Hate For Profit campaign to boycott advertising on Facebook at the urging of civil rights groups, among others.
Well, representatives from some of those groups met with Facebook earlier this week, as my colleague David Cohen reported.
As Facebook characterized the meeting: “We know we will be judged by our actions, not by our words, and we are grateful to these groups and many others for their continued engagement.”
As Free Press (an advocacy group) co-CEO Jessica J. González characterized it: Facebook executives used “the same old talking points” that made the meeting feel like “nothing more than a PR exercise."
The findings of a civil rights audit released yesterday found that Facebook still had work to do, pointing to several ways it could improve. Read Cohen's report here.
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