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Emmys: ‘The Great Hack’s Karim Amer Calls Out Facebook For Condoning “Hate Speech”

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Matthew Carey A growing list of advertisers has joined a temporary boycott of Facebook, pressuring the company to do more to curtail hate speech and misinformation on the world’s most powerful social media platform.The campaign has coalesced around the hashtags #StopHateForProfit and #DetoxFacebook, and while so far only 800 or so of Facebook’s 8 million advertisers have pulled ads, it has put Facebook policies into sharp relief.

Concern over Facebook’s impact on democratic institutions and the electoral process predates the current campaign—in fact, filmmakers Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim spent five years examining those issues for their documentary The Great Hack.

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