Facebook scorned by civil rights groups after Zuckerberg meeting

Zuckerberg and Sandberg met with a group of civil rights leaders who have organised a boycott of the company’s advertising products. The executives didn’t ‘commit to a timeline’ to remove disinformation and hate speech, Gonzalez said. — AFP

US civil rights organisations criticised Facebook Inc following a meeting with top executives on July 7, claiming the company hasn’t taken seriously demands to better police its service from hate speech and misinformation.

“Facebook approached our meeting today like it was nothing more than a PR exercise,” Jessica González, co-chief executive officer of Free Press, a non-profit media advocacy group, said in a statement following the meeting. “I’m deeply disappointed that Facebook still refuses to hold itself accountable to its users, its advertisers and society at large.”