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Why corporations should not bow to the mob

2 July 2020

5:14 PM

2 July 2020

5:14 PM

Some of America’s biggest businesses are withholding their ad spending from social media sites, in order to pressure these platforms into restricting or fact-checking posts from conservative users – under the guise of “opposing hate online.” On Friday, Unilever, the company behind household brands Lipton, Dove, and Axe, announced it would stop buying ads on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to encourage those sites to be a “trusted and safe digital ecosystem.”

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