Welcome to the tech meme ride home for Thursday, July 2nd, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Sources are telling the information that Mark Zuckerberg has told staff that Facebook won't change any policies because of a quote threat to a small percent of our revenue

due to the ad boycotts and also that he expects those disgruntled advertisers

participating in the boycotts to return quote soon enough quoting from the information piece

Zuckerberg gave his thoughts on the boycott which now includes large brands like

Starbucks and Coca-Cola during a video town hall meeting last Friday according to employees who attended.

In the previously unreported remarks, Zuckerberg said the boycott is more of a, quote,

reputational and partner issue than an economic one, according to a transcript obtained by the

information he noted that large advertisers participating in the boycott make up a small

portion of Facebook's overall revenue and he said quote we're not going to change our policies or

approach on anything because of a threat to a small percent of our revenue or to

any percent of our revenue and quote and then quoting again you know we don't technically set our policies because of any pressure that people apply to us, Zuckerberg told employees when asked about the boycott.

And in fact, usually I tend to think that if someone goes out there and threatens you to do something,

that actually kind of puts you in a box where in some ways it's even harder to do what they want

because now it looks like you're capitulating and that

sets up bad long-term incentives for others to do that to you as well, end quote.

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