This is what’s wrong with Facebook. They are helping Trump spread lies. I assume this is because they don’t want Trump to go after them for anti-trust issues and his campaign spends millions of dollars on Facebook. Sad!
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The ad boycott of Facebook
These groups, which now boast a collective audience of more than 1 million members, are still thriving after most states started lifting virus restrictions.
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) July 5, 2020
And many have expanded their focus.https://t.co/UHfS2q4N2g
Network of Facebook groups shifts attacks from stay-at-home orders to Black Lives Matter https://t.co/HJWfpzw4Iu
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) July 5, 2020
Facebook groups that were created to protest coronavirus stay-at-home orders quickly became hubs of misinformation and conspiracy theories. They have now moved on to new targets: Black Lives Matter and protests against racial injustice. https://t.co/WtbnaVRaYf
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 5, 2020
More than 500 companies have kicked off an ad boycott intended to pressure Facebook into taking a stronger stand against hate speech. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to meet with its organizers next week. https://t.co/M3BgE67SQS
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 1, 2020
These are the big brands that haven't pulled ads from Facebook yet https://t.co/Nh9BQwX0nO
— CNN (@CNN) July 1, 2020
I've been saying it for years: Mark Zuckerberg is a POS. https://t.co/oHyZLLnmI4
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) July 1, 2020
NEW: Target tells me they've decided to pause all their ads on Facebook and Instagram for the month of July.
— Jo Ling Kent (@jolingkent) June 30, 2020
"We'll use that time to re-evaluate our plans for the remainder of the year." $TGT
Today's top-performing Facebook link posts in the US are from:
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) June 30, 2020
1. Franklin Graham
2. Donald Trump for President
3. Ben Shapiro
4. Blue Lives Matter
5. Dan Bongino
6. Blue Lives Matter
7. Sarah Palin
8. Breitbart
9. Blue Lives Matter
10. Bernie Sanders
1. This detailed account of how Facebook reacted, as a company, to Trump's "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" pretty much tells you what you need to know about how the company operates https://t.co/zwJQpLej8l
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 29, 2020
Facebook’s @nick_clegg tells @brianstelter that fact-checked content like this is “massively downgraded” in news feed. Then why on Earth was this lie the #3 post on Facebook on Friday? https://t.co/5008R4E6ZL
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 28, 2020
Pepsi joining Facebook ad boycott, Fox Business News reports https://t.co/FCbb3wa0vs pic.twitter.com/QbeaG0fa3z
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 28, 2020
Zuckerberg announced a series of steps Friday to try to stem the advertiser exodus from Facebook and it went over like a ton of bricks.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 27, 2020
Partly because the new policies were nibbling at the edges
The other issue is Facebook's big problem is ENFORCEMENThttps://t.co/upx0xSXxUq
The Facebook CEO reportedly told employees he expects advertisers to return "soon enough" https://t.co/zZCxgzVv0h
— CNET (@CNET) July 5, 2020
Conspiracy theories spread on Facebook
On Facebook, social media users spread a conspiracy theory that the protests over the police killing of George Floyd were meant to "start a race war to impose further lockdown restrictions" https://t.co/yF26HBk6ED
— CNET (@CNET) June 28, 2020
As some Americans grew tired of stay-at-home orders, Facebook groups began cropping up demanding state officials reopen the economy. Many of these groups are increasingly becoming hotbeds of conspiracy theories and misinformation, according to researchers https://t.co/ky2cVhwGpS
— CNN (@CNN) June 20, 2020
Deadly conspiracy theories brought to you by Facebook. Zuckerberg makes billions fanning the flames of these diseased theories that damage American democracy and will kill senior citizens. https://t.co/Jeqp8SU38g
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) June 25, 2020
It is pretty amazing how a genuine Facebook hoax (“making people wear a mask violates federal law”) has become a mainstream conspiracy theory among white women https://t.co/YQA5M1C6To
— Bernie Bonds (@BernieBonds) June 27, 2020
Some advertisers are boycotting Facebook because it allows hate and lies to be posted
Good for them. Facebook should be ashamed of their policies.
“The advertiser boycott of Facebook took a toll on the social media giant, but it may have caused more damage to the company’s reputation than to its bottom line.” https://t.co/NBVKYrDg8T
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 2, 2020
Inspiring to see so many companies standing up to Facebook to demand it stop spreading racism and hate.
— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) June 24, 2020
Who's next?!@benandjerrys @MagnoliaPics @eddiebauer @patagonia @REI @thenorthface@Arcteryx @dashlane@Upwork @360i #StopHateForProfit https://t.co/0e2jJKzOJU
Facebook's advertiser boycott is getting even bigger.
— Open Culture (@openculture) June 27, 2020
Coca-Cola, Hershey, Honda and 120 companies have joined the boycott, urging Facebook to stop knowingly allowing political misinformation and hate speech on its platform.https://t.co/NQX1XTYQWy
Very cynical take: ad budgets are shrinking already during the pandemic. Why not get some applause for it? https://t.co/jrbgYKiTJ9
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) June 26, 2020
Coca-Cola has announced a 30-day pause on social media advertising as more and more companies join in a Facebook boycott over what many see as lax policing of hate speech on the platformhttps://t.co/Q1wXel7x3X
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 27, 2020
"Verizon is pulling its advertising from Facebook"
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 26, 2020
https://t.co/sySINHQjnf
More than 90 brands are halting advertising on Facebook in July in a campaign to force the company to crack down on harmful content.
— NPR (@NPR) June 27, 2020
Unilever is going further by doing so "through the end of the year" and extending its boycott to Twitter.
https://t.co/PdoOwXnN7f
These are the companies that spend the most $ on Facebook ads.
— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) June 26, 2020
Will you join the boycott and tell Facebook to stop spreading racism and hate?!@ProcterGamble@Walmart@Microsoft@Target@amazon@HomeDepot@Diageo_News@nytimes@dominos@BestBuy#StopHateForProfit
An advertising boycott against Facebook has hurt the company's stock and raised pressure on Mark Zuckerberg https://t.co/VO26ty8c1Z
— Bloomberg (@business) June 27, 2020
Brands including Upwork, Patagonia, REI and The North Face will stop buying ads on Facebook and Instagram as part of the #StopHateforProfit campaign https://t.co/Z8igLXWgjM
— POLITICO (@politico) June 22, 2020
Verizon, Unilever, REI, The North Face, Honda and Coca-Cola are among the growing list of companies saying they'll join an advertising boycott on Facebook https://t.co/ntef18Z75g
— CNN (@CNN) June 27, 2020
Facebook boycott grows—which companies are stopping advertising, and why https://t.co/wamNipju0Y
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) June 26, 2020
The FTC is trying to strip boycotts of their power as a tool of resistance. They’re twisting antitrust laws to target the organizers behind ad boycotts against sites like X.
— Social Media Lab (@socialmedialab.ca) 2025-06-10T11:09:47.393Z
Facebook is too close to Trump
They don’t want anti-trust problems so they let him post lies. I rarely use it because of this.
All about Mark Zuckerberg's secret dinner with Trump, and what it meant https://t.co/sQDNe8lpPe
— Ben Smith (@benyt) June 22, 2020
This is a quote everyone fighting Trump should read, process and help form a plan to defeat in 2020.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) June 21, 2020
"I understood early that Facebook was how Donald Trump was going to win. Twitter is how he talked to the people. Facebook was going to be how he won."
–Brad Parscale, 2018
“It is clear that Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, are no longer simply negligent, but in fact, complacent in the spread of misinformation, despite the irreversible damage to our democracy…” – @DerrickNAACP
— NAACP (@NAACP) June 18, 2020
https://t.co/FxwuMUKotI
Right-wing posts are popular on Facebook
Facebook has totally caved in to Trump and will do nothing to stop him from lying.
What happens when Huffington Post sues Facebook for political bias @SenatorLoeffler? https://t.co/MWB76ZDFRo
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) June 19, 2020
This is very closely connected with all the policy decisions that Facebook has been making that help secure the preferred political outcome of 9 of the 10 folks on this list. https://t.co/OMzGHVdgT7
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) June 16, 2020
And the top two US media Facebook pages with the most engagement in the past week — a very pivotal week — have been Fox News and Breitbart, per @crowdtangle. https://t.co/0UzudeoLPp
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 5, 2020
Again and again, conservative news and commentary is shown to thrive on Facebook despite claims of "bias" https://t.co/UhziuCn48r
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) June 4, 2020
Facebook lets Trump say anything
They are helping him by allowing him to lie and stoke hatred in his cult members. I hardly use it now because of this. At least some of their employees are showing their disapproval.
I'm not sure who elected Mark Zuckerberg as minister of information, but I plan to vote him out of office next chance that I get.https://t.co/0GYMwb5bmn
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) June 2, 2020
Woof. intense qutestion from FB employee:
— rat king (@MikeIsaac) June 2, 2020
"“Why are the smartest people in the world focused on contorting and twisting our policies to avoid antagonizing trump?”https://t.co/ZSpKcyDOji
Facebook is the primary source of news for a lot of Americans still deciding who to vote for in November https://t.co/O4FkytVvEl
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) June 2, 2020
Very powerful resignation letter from a Facebook engineer who worked on misinformation tools.
— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) June 2, 2020
"Mark always told us that he would draw the line at speech that calls for violence. He showed us on Friday that this was a lie." pic.twitter.com/IfyhdHsprs
Civil-rights leaders were left “stunned” after trying to explain racism in a Monday meeting with Mark Zuckerberg https://t.co/voVBWRlYAB
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 2, 2020
🔥@Facebook employees are staging a walkout today for the 1st time in the company's history, and some have threatened to QUIT, in protest of Mark Zuckerberg's decision to allow @realDonaldTrump's racist post that incites violence to stand.#DeleteFacebookhttps://t.co/CybUhwVzJm
— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) June 1, 2020
Civil rights leaders went into a call with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg tonight with low expectations. They were not disappointed. Mark didn't comprehend/accept history of voter suppression and that Trump's tweets could stoke violence against demonstrators. More to come
— CeciliaKang (@ceciliakang) June 2, 2020
Sources tell me that Facebook employees are changing their internal employee-Facebook profile images to the Twitter logo in protest https://t.co/Bk7XlTw4uq
— Kate Klonick (@Klonick) June 1, 2020
🔥@Facebook employees are staging a walkout today for the 1st time in the company's history, and some have threatened to QUIT, in protest of Mark Zuckerberg's decision to allow @realDonaldTrump's racist post that incites violence to stand.#DeleteFacebookhttps://t.co/CybUhwVzJm
— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) June 1, 2020
Wow.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 31, 2020
Before announcing that Trump's post suggesting "looters" should be gunned down would be allowed to remain on Facebook, despite the company's clear ban on content advocating violence ZUCKERBERG PERSONALLY CALLED TRUMP and had a "productive" call https://t.co/x7bSakTLkf
During a company-wide town hall, Zuckerberg struggled to explain his decision-making process as many of his employees reminded him of promises he'd made before Congress to remove content that calls for violence or that could lead to imminent physical harm https://t.co/FlGoNruZWI
— CNN (@CNN) June 2, 2020
Zuckerberg’s position exempting politicians from #Facebook standards is as incoherent as it is destructive. He won’t prevent pols from using FB to incite violence & he won’t let FB be an “arbiter of truth” even to fact-check pols’ most brazen&harmful lies. https://t.co/J10KlffB1l
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) May 30, 2020
Not physically being in the office hasn't prevented some workers from "walking out."
— CNN (@CNN) June 2, 2020
Some at Facebook staged a virtual walkout Monday over CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to take action on a series of controversial posts from President Trump last week. https://t.co/Z4gJdheDbN
Trump’s dangerous executive order
He can’t take any interference with his lies. Facebook has caved into him. Twitter flags two out of thousands of false tweets and he goes ballistic.
A new executive order by President Trump to crack down on social media bias is wrong in so many ways, writes The Times Editorial Board. "We can't even begin to count them." (via @latimesopinion) https://t.co/qQtUcvQIaB
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) May 28, 2020
This, from the executive order, completely unmasks what a laughable exercise in bad faith this whole thing really is. It's all about bullying social media companies into treating Trump's lies as truths, and truths about Trump's bottomless corruption as lies: pic.twitter.com/xQVJ580um2
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 28, 2020
This is in the text of Trump's executive order targeting social media companies pic.twitter.com/2gUxvrMapn
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) May 28, 2020
Think of all the time that would free up for golf. https://t.co/5ThB4wHJh5
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 28, 2020
“Donald Trump is so committed to preventing Americans from voting that he spent weeks lying about vote by mail, and now he is trying to twist Section 230 and the First Amendment to force Twitter to spread these lies." –@RonWyden https://t.co/NmZGWmUSq9
— Swing Left (@swingleft) May 28, 2020
This presidential meltdown brought to you by the hurt feelings of the man with the nuclear codes. https://t.co/zNhjSvFQZH
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 28, 2020
Here, buried in the Executive Order is the reason @realDonaldTrump flipped his wig: He’s upset Twitter fact checked him. It is always about him. pic.twitter.com/PZZ5IiKX1e
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 28, 2020
Railing against alleged ‘bias’ of social media companies after Twitter fact-checked him, President Trump signs new executive order @kaitlancollins reports pic.twitter.com/l5jD3Ug5u6
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) May 28, 2020
If you had to guess which company fact-checked Trump and which criticized that decision and the only information you had was that Trump's campaign doesn't spend money on Twitter and it spends tens of millions on Facebook, what would you guess?
— Philip Bump (@pbump) May 28, 2020
Take a look down Trump's twitter feed and then tell me that his account doesn't violate Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
— Jennifer Mercieca (@jenmercieca) May 28, 2020
It's all ad baculum threats, tu quoque (appeals to hypocrisy), and conspiracy. Trump's twitter is an attack on the American public sphere.
Lol – whatever hack lawyer approved Trump's order failed to realize it forces more not less scrutiny of content by turning social media into publishers. No publisher would stand behind Trump's lies & ravings unless they wanted to commit financial suicide
— Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu) May 28, 2020
https://t.co/AilL0dNcIj
Even Trump’s resident professionally obtuse legal defender couldn’t muster more than this sad little explanation. pic.twitter.com/8kRYKtgJ2c
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) May 28, 2020
Trump will try to bully social media companies
Trump whines that they are anti-conservative. I think the bias is in favor of the Republicans since Facebook and Twitter have let him spread thousand of lies and other inappropriate comments most people could not get away with. He’s just trying to bully them into keep allowing his lies. This is all his response to one effort by Twitter to highlight facts on voter fraud. Otherwise, they’re letting him lie. His voter fraud lies are dangerous and will cause his cult members to question the results of the election if Trump loses. Facebook has made it clear they will just let Trump lie. I think both companies are concerned that the government would try to break them up since they are so large and powerful now. That’s my view of why they have let Trump lie. This is another example of Trump’s authoritarian tendencies.
SCOOP: Trump to sign executive order targeting Facebook, Google and Twitter tmw, and sources expect it will urge federal agencies to take a closer look at Section 230 while funneling complaints about bias to FTC for review, opening door for punishmenthttps://t.co/V3VuPZP4WV
— Tony Romm (@TonyRomm) May 28, 2020
BREAKING
— Kate Klonick (@Klonick) May 28, 2020
Just got a draft copy of Trump's Executive Order on Social Media anonymously sent to my inbox.
THREE TWEET SUMMARY:
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Trump can't lawfully repeal Section 230 by EO.
— David French (@DavidAFrench) May 28, 2020
Trump can't change Twitter speech policies by EO.
The combination of Section 230 and the First Amendment dramatically limit his ability to regulate online speech.
And we should all be thankful for those constraints.
Trump’s disgraceful attacks on Twitter
He’s mad because they fact-checked him on one of his thousands of lies. Twitter is better than Facebook which has done nothing. They let Trump lie all the time.
Twitter has taken the unprecedented step of adding fact-check warnings to two of President Trump’s tweets. Why did Twitter act now, and how does it decide when to use such warnings?https://t.co/mUHEhZYxOB
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 28, 2020
Your regular reminder that much of the top performing content on social media is from right-wing media. If companies like Facebook are trying to “silence conservative voices,” they’re doing an incredibly lousy job. https://t.co/SNaELVDfmK
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 27, 2020
Twitter grants Trump every possible exception from its rules and offers a relatively mild corrective — a link to fact checks already on Twitter — and he responds as if they had deleted his tweets and terminated his account. https://t.co/DrbXlLwlII
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) May 27, 2020
Trump's latest lies about Twitter and voter fraud aren't just deranged. They're an *abuse of power.* Trump is threatening retribution to facilitate voter suppression *and* to discourage the sharing of concrete information that could save lives. New piece:https://t.co/A9qM2Zq7RY
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 27, 2020
He’s going to go through some things.
— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) May 27, 2020
In which Kellyanne Conway gives marching orders to trolls to swarm, harass and shake down a private citizen in the name of free speech https://t.co/X5POj0qRbF
Trump Campaign Manager:
— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) May 27, 2020
"There are many reasons we pulled all our advertising from Twitter months ago, and clear political bias is one of them."#FactCheck: Twitter banned all political ads in 2019.
Even their response is a lie.
FWIW, the first link to a story that I see when I click on Twitter's fact-check is to The Hill, which is owned by Jimmy Finkelstein, a longtime friend of Trump's. https://t.co/Qt8RMvf49v
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 26, 2020
I saw your threat just now.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) May 26, 2020
What are you going to do to punish @Twitter for simply warning its users that you're lying?
Tell everyone. We're listening. https://t.co/iyRasCr4D2
Twitter is like Susan Collins. https://t.co/lx2Jaf2DyC
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) May 26, 2020
Sad! 