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🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#StopHateforProfit is an important first step, but we need to go much further.

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0:00.0	Hey there listeners, we're taking a break from our usual interviews to give you an update on our movement.
0:05.0	You may have heard about the recent advertisers boycott of social media this month.
0:09.0	It's called Stop Hate for Profit, and more than 500 companies have joined the campaign so far,
0:15.3	including huge brands like Unilever, Coca-Cola, Starbucks, McDonald's, Honda.
0:19.7	The campaign's been driven by the N-Double ACP, Color of Change, and the Anti-Defamation League.
0:25.0	Why is this campaign happening now?
0:27.0	Well, I think we've given you ample evidence on this podcast of how hate has a home field advantage in social media.
0:33.0	Per the recent Wall Street Journal Exposay,
0:35.0	64% of the extremist groups that were joined on Facebook
0:39.0	were due to Facebook's own recommendation algorithms.
0:42.0	We know that Bugaloo Boys groups, which refer to Civil War II,
0:46.1	were recommended by Facebook, and actually led to a federal officer
0:48.9	being killed in Oakland, California.
0:51.2	I think why this campaign is happening now is that people are fed up. They know
0:56.2	that there is a problem. You know many people can't quite put their finger on it
0:59.6	but they have seen so much damage and polarization and outrage.
1:03.9	And this is true across the board in social media.
1:06.3	We've seen how YouTube, some of the top verbs
1:08.8	that are listed in the titles on videos
1:10.9	are dismantles, debunks,
1:13.0	realises, screams, obliterates, shreds, defies, owns,
1:16.4	confronts, insults.
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