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Andrew Yang Podcast

It Could Happen Here

Andrew Yang Podcast

Andrew Yang & Audacy

Society & Culture

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, discusses antisemitism, the importance of national service, social entrepreneurship, "counsel culture," and fighting hate in Silicon Valley.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We started it in June.

0:02.0

We said, take the month of July off Facebook.

0:04.2

We told companies, don't advertise on Facebook

0:06.4

for the month of July.

0:07.8

And when we started the campaign, we had...

0:10.0

We didn't have a single company lineup.

0:11.4

I mean, it was very audacious.

0:13.8

Three weeks later, we had over 1100 companies,

0:16.8

the biggest brands in the world.

0:18.0

Incredible.

0:18.8

Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Starbucks.

0:20.6

So why were they so receptive, do you think?

0:22.4

Like, did they do exactly why?

0:24.4

Because we gave them examples of like white supremacist

0:28.3

and anti-Semitic and racist content on Facebook?

0:32.1

Like, flight it against their ads.

0:34.5

Yeah, that's pretty convincing.

0:35.5

So here's an Amazon ad, you know, next to a just...

0:38.9

Like a bloody truck that says, let's go get the next George Floyd.

0:42.5

Or here's a Salesforce ad, or a Verizon ad, and so on and so forth.

0:49.1

And you put that out there, and how are choices?

0:51.2

I don't want Starbucks advertising alongside the Nazis.

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