Amazon adds Microsoft, Unilever, and 11 others to its Climate Pledge, an effort to meet the goals of the Paris Accord by 2040
Some environmental groups say the initiative's limited disclosure requirements undermine its effectiveness. — SEATTLE — Amazon added to the roster …
Sources: Zuckerberg told staff Facebook won't change policies because of “threat to a small percent of our revenue”, expects advertisers to return “soon enough”
Home entertainment today … Dominic Rushe / The Guardian : Mark Zuckerberg: advertisers' boycott of Facebook will end ‘soon enough’ Bloomberg : Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Under Siege After Facebook Scr...
With top 100 brands contributing only an estimated 6% of Facebook's revenue and Zuckerberg's voting control over the company, ad boycott's impact may be limited
Facebook held a cross-team meeting *within 24 hours* of just the boycott's announcement to discuss how to handle it. https://twitter.com/... Bob Pickard / @bobpickard : This ‘PR ploy’ conjecture about...
Zuckerberg says Facebook will now label content that violates its rules but was left up because it was deemed newsworthy and of public interest
even Trump's Aaron Mak / Slate : Facebook Just Made Taking Down a Trump Post Inevitable Brian Fung / CNN : Facebook will label more controversial content and tighten advertising policies Queenie Wong ...
Unilever says it will halt US advertising on Facebook and Twitter for at least the remainder of 2020, citing hate speech and divisive content on the platforms
to the point where it has de-indexed entire countries rather than do so — but that dam broke this week. Why? https://www.cjr.org/... Alexia Bonatsos / @alexia : Facebook on the other side of “platform...
Unilever says it will halt US advertising on Facebook and Twitter for at least the remainder of 2020, citing hate speech and divisive content on the platforms
like @NAACP — and Internet activists, namely @slpng_giants, who have figured out how to leverage social media to trigger corporate action. That's new. https://twitter.com/... Tyler McCall / @eiffeltyl...
Uber says all riders and drivers will need to wear masks starting next week and introduces new tools to verify drivers are doing so before each trip
> “Uber will require all drivers and riders to wear masks starting Monday” via @cnbctech by @ryan_browne_ https://www.cnbc.com/... Ryan Browne / @ryan_browne_ : Uber has set aside $50 million to distr...