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Verizon Joins Growing Facebook Ad Boycott Over Hate Speech Concerns

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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorVerizon has become perhaps the biggest advertiser yet to join a boycott of Facebook, with the telco saying it is “pausing” ad spending with the social-media giant until Facebook can address brand-safety problems.Verizon’s decision came after the Anti-Defamation League — one of the groups behind the #StopHateForProfit campaign to pressure Facebook into adopting more aggressive steps to combat hate and harassment — said it found an ad for Verizon on Facebook next to a video from conspiracy group QAnon.The QAnon video included “hateful and antisemitic rhetoric” and warned that FEMA is “planning to bring on civil war with concentration camps and coffins at the ready and claiming Americans are already quarantined.

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