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• Vox Shirin Ghaffary on x

  Civil rights leaders are still fed up with Facebook over hate speech

• @rashadrobinson Rashad Robinson on x

  Met with Mark Zuckerberg and @Facebook leadership today. It was a disappointment. They have had our demands for years and yet it is abundantly clear that they are not yet ready to address the vitriolic hate on their platform.

• @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x

  Sheryl Sandberg claims in Facebook post this morning, “We are making changes - not for financial reasons or advertiser pressure, but because it is the right thing to do.” https://www.facebook.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  In a meeting today with civil rights groups who organized the widespread ad boycott, Facebook failed to appease organizers, saying it doesn't respond to demands under financial pressure. w/ @tiffkhsu https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x

  “I'm deeply disappointed that Facebook still refuses to hold itself accountable to its users, its advertisers and society at large” https://www.freepress.net/... https://twitter.com/...

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  Seven hours later... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @swodinsky Shoshana Wodinsky on x

  ive been trying to pinpoint why the news cycle feels so gutting rn, and tbh it just might be the endless drumbeat of powerful institutions telling us again and again that we don't deserve to ask for anything better than our deeply shitty status quo https://gizmodo.com/...

• @nellwyn Nell Thomas on x

  🧵Over @TheDemocrats, we've been working to bring transparency and accountability to social media platforms. This includes documenting policy violations. As this article hints, @Facebook sends us some ridiculous answers to our questions and inquiries. https://www.washingtonpost.co…

• @alexhern Alex Hern on x

  it is impressive to commit to ignoring part of your two-year-long civil rights audit before you've even published it https://www.alpha.facebook.com/ ...

• @yaeleisenstat Yael Eisenstat on x

  @donie Interesting. When my FB team proposed a plan to combat voter suppression in ads in 2018 (amid the civil rights audit), there was no interest from my managers to “do the right thing”. Wrote all about it 2 weeks ago. How many more times will we hear “we know we have to do be…

• @carolecadwalla Carole Cadwalladr on x

  Well said, @rashadrobinson though vitriolic hate is only one aspect of Facebook's harms. Ask @mariaressa - facing jail in Philippines- for others. Or the Rohingya. Or us in Britain with our poor squalid corrupt subverted referendum https://twitter.com/...

• @danprimack Dan Primack on x

  Special evening episode of @AxiosReCap, focused on the Facebook ad boycott. We talk to the four boycott organizers, who met today with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. What happened and what comes next? https://podcasts.apple.com/... https://www.axios.com/...

• @teroterotero Tero Kuittinen on x

  @swodinsky Zuck's profound contempt for his critics stems from the fact that he has gotten away with so much by just stonewallling and mouthing platitudes. He founded the company on breaking the rules of his university and life taught him that there are never any consequences.

• @mikahmiriam Mikah O'Mara on x

  @donie She's the Ivanka of Facebook

• @mayawiley Maya Wiley on x

  #Facebook is not going to grow a conscience. https://twitter.com/...

• @jamesclayton5 James Clayton on x

  BREAKING: The New York Times reporting that Facebook's civil rights audit - two years in the making - is highly critical. Facebook may be “driving people towards self-reinforcing echo chambers of extremism” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @ericgeller Eric Geller on x

  So Facebook is making changes because it's the right thing to do and not because of “financial reasons or advertiser pressure,” but it's only discovering the right thing to do after advertiser pressure that risked financial losses. Got it. https://www.facebook.com/... https://twi…

• @adamslily Lily Adams on x

  They aren't making changes because of an audit. Any changes theyre making are because a smart boycott was organized by groups like @ColorOfChange. Full stop. https://twitter.com/...

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  Sandberg is trying to conflate their civil rights audit with the meeting today with members of our #StopHateForProfit campaign, trying to sow confusion. Two different subjects. We have been here before and they haven't made “changes.” They're just kicking the can down the road. h…

• @jeffstone500 Jeff Stone on x

  Facebook is trying to get ahead of an independent civil rights audit, scheduled for release after two years of work amid an ad boycott. 👀 “We are making changes - not for financial reasons or advertiser pressure, but because it is the right thing to do.” https://www.facebook.com/…

• @elinor_carmi @elinor_carmi on x

  Sheryl Sandberg “We are making changes - not for financial reasons or advertiser pressure, but because it is the right thing to do” https://www.alpha.facebook.com/ ... I've analyzed the Six4Three lawsuit docs. From 7000 pages I can say: EVERY single change Facebook does is cuz of…

• @mayazi @mayazi on x

  No other company has gotten as many chances to get it right as FB has. And everytime they keep trying to spin it instead of fixing it. Every single time. Guess that's how to lean in https://twitter.com/...

• @cliffordlevy Cliff Levy on x

  Zuckerberg & Sandberg met with civil rights leaders. Harsh response: • FB reverted to “spin.” • “Same old talking points.” • “They showed up to the meeting expecting an A for attendance. Attending alone is not enough.” https://www.nytimes.com/... By @MikeIsaac @tiffkhsu

• @rachellarris Rachel Joy Larris on x

  I've been skeptical since FB announced they would meet publicly. That tends to mean they wanted the attention for going but no interest in listening. https://twitter.com/...

• @cruickshank @cruickshank on x

  Least surprising news ever. FB and Zuckerberg do not believe they are accountable to anyone or need to change a thing. https://twitter.com/...

• @schmidtlepp Christopher Lauer on x

  It does to demands of dictatorships, though. https://twitter.com/...

• @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x

  Color of Change's @rashadrobinson starts with reminding us of Facebook's hiring of Definers PR firm. https://twitter.com/...

• @kurtwagner8 Kurt Wagner on x

  fwiw I think it would have been much newsier if any of these groups had left the meeting with something *positive* to say about FB. I think it was clear from the past few weeks there was little FB would/could do to appease the ad boycotters

• @kurtwagner8 Kurt Wagner on x

  the first statements are out from civil rights groups following their meeting with FB this morning. They are not flattering: “Facebook approached our meeting today like it was nothing more than a PR exercise.” - Jessica González, co-CEO of Free Press

• @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x

  Groups behind Facebook ad boycott about to hold a press conference on Zoom now on how [badly] their meeting with Facebook went.

• @freepress Free Press on x

  @NAACP @ColorOfChange @ADL @Facebook @JGo4Justice .@JGo4Justice: “This isn't over. We will continue to expand the boycott until @Facebook takes our demands seriously.” #StopHateForProfit is only growing. We have to keep up the pressure. https://www.freepress.net/... 3/3

• @afp @afp on x

  #BREAKING Ad boycott organizers say Facebook pledge on hateful content insufficient https://twitter.com/...

• @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x

  🚨Looks like meeting with organizers of Facebook ad boycott didn't go so well: “#StopHateForProfit didn't hear anything today to convince us that Zuckerberg and his colleagues are taking action.” https://twitter.com/...

• @freepress Free Press on x

  Today we @NAACP @ColorOfChange and @ADL met with execs from @Facebook, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg. How did the meeting go? From our Co-CEO @JGo4Justice: “#StopHateForProfit didn't hear anything today to convince us that Zuckerberg and his colleagues are taking action.” 1/