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Dear John, 

One year ago, in response to Facebook doubling down on their refusal to
remove calls to violence against Black protestors, we launched our “Stop
Hate for Profit” campaign. Together, with our partners and Color Of Change
members like you, we successfully compelled an unprecedented 1,200
business partners to withdraw millions of dollars in advertising from
Facebook for failing to protect Black users and community stakeholders.^1
The boycott increased the pressure we placed on Facebook to respond,
resulting in them agreeing to some of our long standing demands, including
creating a senior role to oversee civil rights at the company and a
dedicated team to study algorithmic racial bias.^2

Despite these important changes, Facebook continues to fall far short of
adequately addressing the harms they cause our communities. For the last
year, Facebook has refused to publicly address the full set of
recommendations from the independent civil rights audit Color Of Change
pressured Facebook to undergo. This audit, led by outside civil rights
experts, investigated every corner of the company to identify harms
resulting from Facebook’s policies, products, and decisions. The nearly
100-page audit showed rampant failures at Facebook to address civil rights
issues such as voter suppression of and organized hate against Black
people.^3 

Instead of implementing the recommendations set out in the audit, Facebook
continues to sink to new lows—they said they banned Trump for two years,
then let him run ads for his June rally and fundraise to further line his
pockets.^4 Demand that Facebook publicly implement the crucial
recommendations of the civil rights audit and adopt Color Of Change’s new
#BeyondTheStatement Tech Framework to undo the policies, practices, and
products that continue to manufacture race-based discrimination and
inequity.^5

[ [link removed] ]SIGN THE PETITION

Without enacting the full set of recommendations, Facebook continues to
prioritize profit over any cost. This has already resulted in Facebook
supercharging misinformation during the 2020 election and providing Trump
and other right-wing extremist groups with unprecedented tools that made
organizing the insurrection possible.^6,7 Facebook side-stepped decisive
action to permanently ban Trump and has instead opened the door for his
return ahead of the 2024 presidential election season.^8 The company is on
course to repeat its failures, imperiling Black lives and democracy once
again. 

We cannot let Facebook forget the danger it poses to the physical and
digital lives of Black people the longer it refuses to enact the civil
rights audit recommendations. Add your name to the petition. 

[ [link removed] ]SIGN THE PETITION

Until justice is real, 

—Jade Magnus Ogunnaike and the Color Of Change team

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References:

 1. Stop Hate for Profit, [ [link removed] ][link removed] 
 2. Shannon Bond, “Over 400 Advertisers Hit Pause On Facebook, Threatening
$70 Billion Juggernaut,” NPR, July 1, 2020,
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 3. Jessica Guynn, “Facebook backlash after audit: Civil rights leader
says Mark Zuckerberg’s power must be reined in,” USA Today, July 8,
2020,
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 4. “Donald Trump is back advertising on Facebook,” FWIW, June 21, 2021,
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 5. “Beyond the Statement: Tech Framework,” Color Of Change, June 2021,
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 6. Kari Paul, “'It Let White Supremacists Organize': The Toxic Legacy of
Facebook's Groups,” The Guardian, February 4, 2021,
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 7. Vera Bergengruen, Billy Perrigo, “Facebook Acted Too Late to Tackle
Misinformation on 2020 Election, Report Finds,” Time, March 23, 2021,
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 8. Cristiano Lima, “Facebook gives Trump path to return – but not until
at least 2023,” Politico, June 4, 2021,
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