After meeting with Facebook executives, civil rights leaders ripped into CEO Mark Zuckerberg for doing too little to stop racial hatred and violence.
The civil rights groups have led a massive backlash against Facebook, with nearly 1,000 companies pulling millions of dollars in advertising to protest the spread of hate speech, violent threats and misinformation on Facebook's platforms.
Seizing on the public conversation over racial injustice and police brutality after the death in police custody of George Floyd to shed new light on the spread of racism and hate on Facebook and Instagram, the campaign quickly dominoed, emerging as a significant threat to Facebook’s public image. Facebook has met before with civil rights group leaders, most recently to take issue with the company’s policy of not fact-checking politicians’ ads and its hands-off approach to Trump’s posts.
"Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and the entire Facebook community knows that we have come to the table, we've engaged, we've pushed and many times we have gotten from them that they are doing everything they possibly can, that they are making all the changes necessary and then we see the results of changes not implemented, of decisions not enforced and commitments not delivered on," Robinson said.
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