{"id":176391,"date":"2020-06-27T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/27\/grabbing-them-by-the-pocketbook\/"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:09:00","slug":"grabbing-them-by-the-pocketbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/27\/grabbing-them-by-the-pocketbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Grabbing Them by the Pocketbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a growing boycott of ads from large advertisers, Facebook is promising half measures to address politically motivated hate speech and lies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rather unsurprisingly, given Facebook’s affection for right wing conspiracy theorists and racists, these motions are limited to a bland notice.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, the advertisers will see through this: <\/p>\n

As advertisers pull away from Facebook to protest the social networking giant\u2019s hands-off approach to misinformation and hate speech, the company is instituting a number of stronger policies to woo them back.<\/span>

<\/span>In a livestreamed segment of the company\u2019s weekly all-hands meeting, CEO Mark Zuckerberg recapped some of the steps Facebook is already taking, and announced new measures to fight voter suppression and misinformation \u2014 although they amount to things that other social media platforms like Twitter have already enacted and enforced in more aggressive ways.<\/span>

<\/span>At the heart of the policy changes is an admission that the company will continue to allow politicians and public figures to disseminate hate speech that does, in fact, violate Facebook\u2019s own guidelines \u2014 but it will add a label to denote they\u2019re remaining on the platform because of their \u201cnewsworthy\u201d nature.<\/span>

<\/span>It\u2019s a watered-down version of the more muscular stance that Twitter has taken to limit the ability of its network to amplify hate speech or statements that incite violence.<\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>Facebook is also going to take additional steps to restrict hate speech in advertising. <\/span>

<\/span>\u201cSpecifically, we\u2019re expanding our ads policy to prohibit claims that people from a specific race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, gender identity or immigration status are a threat to the physical safety, health or survival of others,\u201d Zuckerberg said. \u201cWe\u2019re also expanding our policies to better protect immigrants, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers from ads suggesting these groups are inferior or expressing contempt, dismissal or disgust directed at them.\u201d <\/span>

<\/span>Zuckerberg\u2019s remarks came days of advertisers \u2014 most recently Unilever and Verizon<\/a> \u2014 announced that they\u2019re going to pull their money from Facebook as part the #StopHateforProfit campaign organized by civil rights groups.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With a growing boycott of ads from large advertisers, Facebook is promising half measures to address politically motivated hate speech and lies. Rather unsurprisingly, given Facebook’s affection for right wing conspiracy theorists and racists, these motions are limited to a bland notice. Hopefully, the advertisers will see through this: As advertisers pull away from Facebook …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[608,506,364,387,367,398,598],"class_list":["post-176391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-advertising","tag-bigotry","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy","tag-internet","tag-racism","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}