Coca-Cola suspends social media advertising despite Facebook changes
, despite being listed as a"participating business".
Mr Quincey said the company would use the global"social media platform pause" to"reassess our advertising policies to determine whether revisions are needed".Mark Zuckerberg told the BBC's Simon Jack that Facebook would 'take down' coronavirus misinformation Clothes maker Levi Strauss & Co also said it would be pausing advertising on Facebook following Mr Zuckerberg's announcement. Unlike Coca-Cola, it accused the social media firm of not going far enough."We want to see meaningful progress towards ending the amplification of misinformation and hate speech and better addressing of political advertisements and content that contributes to voter suppression.
The #StopHateforProfit coalition - which includes the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Anti-Defamation League - said"We have been down this road before with Facebook. They have made apologies in the past. They have taken meagre steps after each catastrophe where their platform played a part. But this has to end now," it added.
The campaign called on Mr Zuckerberg to take further steps, including establishing permanent civil rights infrastructure within his company; submitting to independent audits of identity-based hate and misinformation; finding and removing public and private groups publishing such content; and creating expert teams to review complaints.
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