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The Vergecast

How Color of Change helped lead the Facebook boycott

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Nilay Patel talks to Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change. Color of Change, an online racial justice organization, is one of the groups leading the ad boycott against Facebook and other social media companies in response to hate speech appearing on the platforms. In the interview, Robinson talks about how the boycott campaign came together; his history pushing Facebook on issues of hate speech and civil rights; and meeting with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and fellow leaders of the boycott to discuss the Facebook civil rights audit and how the company can improve the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Gideon Litchfield, I'm the editor-in-chief of Wired.

0:02.8

And I'm Lauren Good, I'm a senior writer at Wired.

0:05.4

We're making a new show.

0:07.0

Have a nice future.

0:09.2

I'm more have a nice future, question mark.

0:12.8

It's a show that is honest about how unsettling the future can be.

0:17.1

We're going to be bringing on the people shaping this future.

0:20.7

We're going to ask them about the big challenges we face, about the challenges they're creating,

0:25.1

and how they deal with living in perpetual uncertainty as we all do.

0:29.4

So make sure you follow Have a Nice Future wherever you get your podcasts.

1:59.4

Thanks for having me.

2:15.4

So color change has been in the news a lot recently around Facebook boycotts.

2:20.1

You just had a meeting with Mark Zuckerberg.

2:22.5

There's the civil rights audit that Facebook just released.

2:24.8

You've been talking about that.

2:25.8

But I want to start, the very start for people.

2:28.8

What is color change?

2:30.4

Color of change is an organization that works to hold government and corporations accountable.

2:36.0

We are a forest driven by nearly 7 million black folks and allies of every race.

2:42.4

And we were founded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when black folks were literally

2:46.2

on their roofs begging for the government to do something and they were left to die.

2:50.7

And the thing about Katrina that I think animates so much of our theory of change is that

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