Facebook boycott

Former ACLU president says censoring hate speech can backfire – just like it did in Nazi Germany

The former head of the ACLU, a daughter of Holocaust survivors, believes moves to censor hate speech are generally ill-advised.

Facebook reports increased ad revenue even as ADL-led boycott reduced spending: Report

Led by the ADL, several civil rights groups launched the #StopHateForProfit campaign to protest Facebook’s unwillingness to police hate speech or monitor posts for misinformation.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., on April 10, 2018. Later that year, the Anti-Defamation League would start to pivot from collaborating with Facebook to pressuring it on its hate speech policies. (Xinhua/Ting Shen via Getty Images)

Civil rights groups leading the Facebook ad boycott met with Mark Zuckerberg. They say nothing has changed.

The #StopHateForProfit leaders said Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives only addressed one item on their list of 10 demands.

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Former ACLU president says censoring hate speech can backfire – just like it did in Nazi Germany

Facebook reports increased ad revenue even as ADL-led boycott reduced spending: Report

Civil rights groups leading the Facebook ad boycott met with Mark Zuckerberg. They say nothing has changed.

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