Facebook and Google threatened by ad company to pull ads

[~~whimsy~~]

Unilever is threatening to pull its advertising from digital platforms that it says have become a "swamp" of fake news, racism, sexism and extremism.

The forceful warning to digital platforms such as Google (GOOGL) and Facebook (FB) will be delivered at an advertising conference in California later on Monday.

"We cannot continue to prop up a digital supply chain ... which at times is little better than a swamp in terms of its transparency," Unilever marketing boss Keith Weed will say, according to a copy of his speech obtained by CNN.

Unilever (UL), which owns brands including Dove, Lipton, and Ben & Jerry's, is one of the world's top advertisers. It has an annual marketing budget of roughly €8 billion ($9.8 billion), and 25% of its ads are digital.

Weed will say that a proliferation of objectionable content on social media -- and a lack of protections for children -- is eroding social trust, harming users and undermining democracies.

"This is not something that can brushed aside or ignored," he will say in the speech.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/12/media/unilever-advertising-facebook-google-swamp/index.html

 

[Supafly]

That is the best way to get those internet companies to implement changes:

Telling them:

You clean up your act, or we pull the funds.

(Keith Weed, now THAT is a cool name)

 

[~~whimsy~~]

How many times has a conglomerate been challenged and actually changed for the better? Facebook and Google will be changed how?

 

[Will E Worm]

Good let them. We cant allow companies to infringe on our freedom of speech.

 

[Chopper3000]

I disagree. It stops morons from having their say.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

Freedom of speech? No such thing. Sure can speak in a certain way but not in certain ways. Just like how it is here or just about majority of any public used site.

Or a job.

And in the end there will always be a way for said "morons" to have their say. It won't.matter.

 

[Chopper3000]

Again I disagree.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

I don't care. It won't change anything if they do or not.