[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Tell Facebook to stop running seditionist Mike
Lindell's MyPillow ads immediately!
Dear MoveOn member,
Mike Lindell, the CEO of the MyPillow company, is one of the loudest
voices amplifying QAnon conspiracy theories about Donald Trump.^1 He's
bankrolling MAGA rallies and appearing on Alex Jones' fringe podcast,
promoting the same alternate reality that resulted in the deadly white
supremacist-led insurrection on January 6.^2
It's unacceptable that Facebook is allowing Lindell to spend millions of
dollars advertising on its platform, when he is still selling the Big Lie
propaganda and pro-insurrection garbage that got Donald Trump banned from
the platform.
Earlier this year, after more than 275,000 MoveOn members signed a
petition, Costco booted MyPillow products from all of its stores.^3 Now,
we can come together again to send a loud message to Facebook. And now is
the perfect moment to strike: Even right-wing message machine Fox News has
refused to run Lindell's ads promoting fringe conspiracy theories about
made-up election problems.^4 Let's keep holding him accountable by forcing
Facebook to stop carrying his ads too.
[ [link removed] ]Sign my petition: Tell Facebook to immediately stop running MyPillow
ads!
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell continues to promote dangerous conspiracy
theories that threaten our democratic freedoms. Facebook must stop making
money off of Lindell's lies and immediately stop running MyPillow ads.
[3]Sign David's petition
Lindell is peddling many of the same, dangerous lies that forced Facebook
to remove Trump from the platform. His lies are so bad that major
retailers like Kohl's and Bed Bath & Beyond stopped selling MyPillow
products.
But Lindell has doubled down on his aggressive lies and is now holding
rallies at which he spouts the QAnon fiction that Trump will somehow be
reinstated as president.^5 Department of Homeland Security officials have
told lawmakers that they expect this conspiracy theory to inflame the
threat of extremist violence, just as the lies that Trump and Lindell
spread earlier helped fuel the racist violence of January 6.^6
Yet Facebook is still making money off of MyPillow, which has increased
its online advertising as a result of being kicked out of retail stores.^6
Enough is enough. It's time for Facebook to be consistent and stop taking
money from MyPillow, indirectly propping up and amplifying Lindell's
conspiracy theories.
[ [link removed] ]Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to
your friends.
MoveOn's highest priority right now is to pass the American Jobs Plan and
American Families Plan, and we're all-in on this critical legislation that
will reimagine our economy by rewarding work instead of wealth, investing
in green infrastructure and the care economy, and making sure the rich and
corporations pay more of their fair share.
At the same time, seditionists like Mike Lindell need to be reined in,
because we have to defend our democracy on all fronts to ensure we have a
government that can meet the needs of the American people—and part of that
is ensuring consequences for people, including political and business
leaders, who continue to undermine the election results and support
insurrectionists. Which is why we're calling on Facebook to remove
MyPillow ads from their platform. Together, we can seize on the momentum
against Lindell and hold him accountable.
Thanks!
–David Sievers, MoveOn Civic Action
Sources:
1. "‘It will be the talk of the world’: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell gives
exact date for Trump’s return to White House in bizarre conspiracy," The
Independent UK, July 7, 2021
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2. "'My Pillow Guy' Mike Lindell teams up with Alex Jones’ on ‘Infowars’"
New York Daily News, July 19, 2021
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3. "MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says Costco has pulled his products. It's
the second-largest retailer to cut ties with him." Business Insider, April
13, 2021
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4. "Fox News, Against All Odds, Refuses to Air MyPillow Guy's Ads
'Proving' Election Fraud Conspiracy," Slate, July 30, 2020
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5. "Mike Lindell set August 13 as the date in his bonkers theory that
Trump will be reinstated as president," Business Insider, July 6, 2021
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6. "DHS is concerned about Trump reinstatement conspiracy theory, top
official says," Politico, June 24, 2021
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7. "MyPillow has spent $3.6 million on Facebook ads in 2021 — and spending
spikes whenever founder Mike Lindell gets bad press, data shows," Business
Insider, March 20, 2021
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