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30 action this is the moment he goes on fighting we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories the on the edges there are a. Growing number of iconic brands are pulling their ad down from states where we think its going to lead them to rising patagonia just sun on the companies doing stuff for Profit Campaign thats incredibly strong and advertisers to the point that facebook is for allowing both racist and violent and verifiably all this kind of rooted into a long term boycott. Hello im Richard Geres person youre watching the listening post working from home here are the media stories were covering this week facebook gets hit by a big brand advertising boycott designed to get hate speech off the site will anything really change. China passes a new law in hong kong that has journalists there running scared well read talking heads and the bookshelves the just lose credibility plus with all those racist statues getting taken down who or what will take their place the 2 bigges
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Another setback for the Iran Nuclear Deal to her own triggers a disputes mechanism saying european powers all doing their part to keep the agreement alive and with the us determined to isolate iran is the deal with saving this isnt sad story. Hello welcome to the program on iran kong iran is expressing frustration with the efforts to save the 2015 u. K. Deal its triggered a mechanism to resolve issues with britain france and germany the Iranian Foreign minister sent a letter to european leaders on friday accusing them of not living up to their side of the agreement. Says tehran is now triggered the dispute mechanism of the agreement 6 times the europeans russia and china have been trying to salvage the deal after the u. S. Pulled out zarif says washingtons maximum Pressure Campaign against iran has lost international support. U. S. Actions at the economic measures of a bully in a better word these actions economic terrorism dont think of america as a superpower the nuclear deal was imp
A new law in hong kong that has journalists there running scared well read talking heads and the bookshelves the just lose credibility plus with all those racist statues getting taken down who or what will take their place the 2 biggest news stories of 2020 the pandemic in the racial inequality protests have triggered what the United Nations calls a tsunami of hate speech a surge in phobia online the social media platforms involved now find themselves the focus of an advertising boycott a campaign called stop hate for profit that is designed to get them to clean up their act by hitting them where it hurts the primary target has been facebook for years Mark Zuckerberg and company have resisted demands to take a more active approach a harder line on moderating hateful content 909 percent of facebooks revenues 70000000000 dollars last year reportedly comes from advertising however given facebooks size. This boycott is unlikely to seriously damage its bottom line at least in the short term