Mark Zuckerberg has hopped on the MAGA train -- ending Meta's fact
checking program, hiring Trump allies, and spewing MAGA talking points.

Advertisers have major leverage on Zuckerberg and they've boycotted the
platform before -- costing Meta $7 billion and forcing Zuckerberg to
concede on specific policies. 

Let's urge them to do it again.

[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 

   
John,

Mark Zuckerberg has officially hopped on the MAGA train. In just the past
few weeks, Meta has:

* Ended its fact checking program;
* Donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund;
* Brought on Trump’s bestie and CEO of UFC Dan White onto the board of
directors.

Meta’s new policies will also end restrictions on hate speech — allowing
racist, homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic slurs.

But Zuckerberg is sensitive to pressure, especially if it hurts his bottom
line.

In 2020 when the platform was exposed for spreading hate speech and
misinformation, our community helped push over 1000 advertisers to join a
boycott — costing Meta $7 billion and forcing Zuckerberg to make several
policy concessions.

We can do it again. But this will only work if people everywhere join.

[ [link removed] ]Tell advertisers: boycott Meta.

After a meeting in November between Trump and Zuckerberg at Mar-a-Lago,
Zuckerberg quickly morphed into a MAGA mouthpiece, claiming fact-checkers
have been “too politically biased” and making several policy changes
aligned with the Trump administration.

But the truth is, Meta’s fact-checking partners followed a strict code of
principles which required nonpartisanship and transparency. In fact Lead
Stories, one of Facebook’s main fact-checking partners, said they never
received notice from Meta about being biased in all the years they worked
together.

It is scary to witness billionaire tech CEOs gaining so much power over
our elections, democracies, and societies as a whole. And as we see a rise
in MAGA-like movements around the world, it’s likely that more and more
corporations across industries will similarly capitulate to far-right
policies.

But not all corporations, and specifically consumer-based corporations,
want this. Many like Patagonia, The North Face, and Unilever are brand
sensitive and don’t want their content appearing next to racist and
homophobic slurs or misinformation threatening elections.

If we keep up the pressure and show advertisers that consumers will not
accept a MAGA status-quo, we can get them to take action. 

[ [link removed] ]Tell advertisers like Unilever, Patagonia, and The North Face: boycott
Meta.



[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 



Thanks for all that you do,
Rewan and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Meta goes MAGA
Popular Information. January 8, 2025

[ [link removed] ]Meta is abandoning fact checking – this doesn’t bode well for the fight
against misinformation
The Conversation. January 7, 2025

 

 

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