With advertiser boycott growing, lawmakers press Facebook on white supremacy

With advertiser boycott growing, lawmakers press Facebook on white supremacy

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https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-letter-senators-warner-hirono-boycott/

In a new letter to Mark Zuckerberg, three Democratic lawmakers pressed the Facebook chief executive for accountability on his company’s role in amplifying white supremacy and allowing violent extremists, like those in “boogaloo” groups, to organize on its platform.

Citing the “long-overdue” national reckoning around racial injustice, Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) wrote to Zuckerberg in an effort to highlight the rift Facebook’s stated policies and its track record.