Hello, welcome to the Good News is Good News edition of Slate Money,

your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm joined by Anna Chomanski of Breaking Views.

Hello. Emily Peck of Huffpost is also here.

Hello. And we are going to talk about Facebook which seems to have lost at least for this month of July

400 plus major brand advertisers what does that mean for media and for Facebook? We are going to talk about

environmental, social and governance investing, ESG investing and why the Trump administration doesn't seem to like it very much.

We are also going to talk about that jobs report this week, which I'm sure you saw, and what it means

for the future trajectory of the US economy.

We are also, if you're a Slate Plus member, going to talk about Netflix and how they're trying

to place some of their cash into institutions

which will funnel it towards black communities.

It's a fun episode so stay tuned.

All of that is coming up on Slate Money.

So this is kind of unprecedented and amazing,

is that as we all know, there are only two advertising platforms in the world anymore they're called

Facebook and Google and one of them Facebook is now facing the biggest

boycott that it has ever seen. It has over 400 big corporate brand

advertisers have got together after being pressured into doing so by

various advocacy organizations and said we are just not going to

advertise at all on Facebook for the month of July and this seems like a pretty big

deal on a bunch of levels it's a pretty big deal on a bunch of levels. It's a pretty big deal just on corporations

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