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KEEP HIM OFF: Advocacy groups are targeting Facebook’s employees with an ad campaign urging the platform to keep former President Trump banned permanently.
More than 30 advocacy groups ran a full page ad in the San Jose Mercury News on Thursday slamming the platform’s announcement last week that it would keep Trump’s suspension in place until at least 2023, leaving open the possibility of his return ahead of the 2024 election.
The ad featured a letter signed by the groups, including Media Matters for America, Accountable Tech, the Anti-Defamation League, Avaaz and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
June 4, 2021
When news broke that Google’s now-former head of diversity Kamau Bobb had authored an antisemitic blog post back in 2007, the outrage was understandable. Comments like Bobb’s “If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war” are bigoted coming from anyone. But his role as “global lead for diversity strategy and research” at Google made Bobb’s sentiments striking in their hypocrisy.
Rather than firing him, Google reassigned Bobb to a different, STEM-focused role. It’s a decision bound to upset some people, particularly given the frequency with which antisemitism is downplayed as a problem.
The New York Times has a gross double standard on “cancel culture,” or what it called “digital shaming,” as evidenced in a Sunday Business section story by tech reporter Kashmir Hill, “Our Digital Pasts Weren’t Supposed to Be Weaponized – A recent firing is
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