PDS 9.16 Guess Who Gave Away ALL Their Money! Hate For Profit, Kim Kardashian, Boeing Max 8, & More
The Philip DeFranco Show
philip defranco
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Remember there was a time where like if you opened up Twitter and you saw Kanye |
| 0:08.4 | Wes peeing on an actual Grammy, that would be like the craziest thing that happened that |
| 0:13.2 | month. But now we're like, ah, Drake memes. Anyway, |
| 0:18.7 | sup you beautiful bastards. Hope you have it a fantastic Wednesday. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show. Buckle up. |
| 0:24.6 | Hit that like button and let's just jump into it. And the first thing that we're gonna talk about today is the situation surrounding |
| 0:29.6 | celebrities, the election, and misinformation on social media. So this story actually begins on Monday when we saw people like Mark Ruffalo saying on Twitter, |
| 0:36.6 | Facebook claims they address hate, yet they continue to look the other way as racist, violent groups and posts so division and split America apart. |
| 0:43.7 | Only taking steps after people are killed. |
| 0:45.8 | While they share empty talk about voting, they continue allowing blatant lies and misinformation on election to spread, undermining our democracy. |
| 0:53.4 | That's why this Wednesday I am freezing my Instagram account to tell Facebook to stop hate for profit. |
| 0:58.0 | Right in this because Instagram is owned by Facebook. And from there, we started seeing other celebrities join in on this boycott. People like Kim Kardashian-West making a very similar comment on Twitter yesterday. Also saying in addition to Instagram, she'd be freezing her Facebook page for 24 hours. And this continued to grow with Demi Lovato, Jennifer Lawrence, Jamie Fox, Leonardo DiCaprio, |
| 1:14.3 | all joining among others. |
| 1:15.5 | All of them using the hashtag stop hate for profit, which, according to the Stop Hate for |
| 1:19.1 | Profit website is a campaign aimed at holding social media companies accountable for hate on |
| 1:23.0 | their platforms. |
| 1:23.8 | The campaign adding that social media must prioritize people over profit and they must do it now. |
| 1:28.5 | Notably, that campaign is made up of several civil rights organizations, including the Anti-Defamation |
| 1:32.7 | League and the NAACP. And as far as why this campaign is specifically targeting Facebook and |
| 1:37.1 | Instagram, you have it saying, other social media companies have heard our message and started to step up. |
| 1:41.5 | Then going on the list examples of how it says Twitter, Reddit and YouTube of address misinformation and hate speech. |
| 1:46.2 | And adding, while these steps are not sufficient, |
| 1:48.4 | they show a commitment toward real progress. |
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