“Facebook wants us to accept the same old rhetoric, repackaged as a fresh response,” the Stop Hate for Profit campaign said in a statement after meeting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg and Chief Product Officer Christopher Cox. The #StopHateforProfit campaign, started by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), had called on corporate advertisers to stop advertising on Facebook until the company overhauled its content moderation policies to stem hate speech and vitriol targeting minorities on the platform. Of the 10 demands that the campaign had raised, Facebook “attempted to address” only one — hiring a civil rights position — but did not commit to whether this would be a C-suite level position or what the requirements for the position would be. In addition to ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson, Color of Change President Rashad Robinson and Free Press CO-CEO Jessica J. González attended the meeting. Greenblatt tweeted his dissatisfaction: “Today's meeting with Mark Zuckerberg and his leadership yielded familiar results: no changes, no timeline, no response to our specific requests,” he wrote, adding that “Facebook could be made safer and better for its users, advertisers and society on a whole” “with a stroke of pen”, but “they don’t have interest in doing that”. Robinson called the meeting a “disappointment”. In response to the reputational damage caused by corporate clients pausing Facebook advertising under the #StopHateforProfit campaign, Facebook had eventually ceded to labelling hateful content by politicians. Read: Facebook will label hateful content by politicians; MediaNama's take…
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