Big advertisers boycott Facebook
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Marketers express unease about Facebook’s handling of hate speech. Plus, how Singapore is introducing wearable dongles to help log and trace people who might have Covid-19. And the simulation company aiming to help redesign cities fit for a post-pandemic world. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: A smartphone showing the website of the “StopHateForProfit” campaign, Credit: EPA/ SASCHA STEINBACH).
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| 0:43.0 | industry. I'm Rory Kathleen Jones and this week as Facebook faces an advertiser boycott, |
| 0:48.5 | will it change the way social media firms police their users? |
| 0:52.2 | We hear from Singapore where they've decided a wearable device |
| 0:55.5 | may be a better way of tracing people infected with coronavirus than a smartphone app and |
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