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Earlier today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other top company executives sat down with leaders of what has become the most widespread ad boycott in Facebook history.

Huge brands like Target and Coca-Cola and Ford Motor Company are participating by pulling their paid messaging from Facebook and Instagram for the entire month of July in an effort to force Facebook to better police and remove what they refer to as hate speech. We're with you tonight to speak with four of the boycott

organizers who are on today's call with Facebook to learn what happened, their reaction to it,

and what comes next. Joining me are Rashad Robinson of Color of Change, Derek Johnson of the

NAACP, Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League and Jessica Gonzalez of Free Press.

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We are joined now by four organizers who are on the call today, Rashad Robinson of Color for Change, Derek Johnson of the NWACP, Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League, and Jessica Gonzalez of free press.

Start here with just to each of you, explain how your organization and even you personally kind of reached the

point that led to this boycott and rachad i guess i'll start with you what was kind of the tipping

point that went from conversations to boycott it's been ongoing a color of change we've been

engaged to pushing facebook for the last five years for a number of years we have planned and

thought about boycotts and

pulled back. It was revealed that they had attacked us by hiring a PR firm. But recently, June 1st,

Color of Change, along with our friends at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the NAACP Legal

Defense Fund, met with Mark and Sherrill over Zoom, along with some of their staff. And at the end of that meeting,

as we were trying to go back and forth with Mark around Donald Trump's voter suppression post,

around the sort of looters and shooters post and why they sort of weren't pulled down, I said to the folks

on the screen, what are we doing here, guys? Why are we keep having these conversations?

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