Facebook ad boycott organisers ask European firms to join campaign

The global campaign, which includes paid media, will be asking advertisers in Europe to stand with the 1,100 advertisers in the US in the fight against hate and disinformation on Facebook, a campaign spokesperson said. — Reuters

Organisers of a Facebook Inc advertising boycott said on July 30 the campaign would “not go away” until their concerns were addressed and they would ask advertisers in Europe to join their cause.

The campaign, set up in June by US civil rights groups, aims to pressure the world’s largest social media company to take concrete steps to block hate speech and misinformation from its platform in the wake of George Floyd’s death in May.