US civil rights group seeks week-long Facebook boycott over racial targeting


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 18 Dec 2018

Signage is displayed outside Facebook Inc. headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018. Facebook Inc., which had warned of rising costs and slowing growth, reported quarterly revenue roughly in line with expectations and profit that beat analysts' forecasts. And despite scandals around fake news and election interference, it added more users, too. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

The US National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, one of the oldest US civil-rights organisations, has returned a donation it received from Facebook Inc and is encouraging a week-long boycott starting Tuesday, Dec 18. 

The NAACP urged its members and supporters to log out of Facebook and sister platform Instagram in response to a report released Monday which found that Russian hacking of the 2016 election heavily targeted African-Americans. 

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