It’s the unofficial start of the Fourth of July weekend! Yes, it’s Thursday, which means it’s time for tech talk with Mark Starling and the First News 570 crew. This week, we’re talking about Google’s acquisition of wearable computing company, North, how corporate America is boycotting Facebook, and a quick round up of this year’s World Wide Developer Conference. You can listen to Mark and I point and laugh while talking about the wild and crazy technology world every Thursday morning, LIVE at 6:43am Eastern.
BIG BRANDS BOYCOTT FACEBOOK AD BUYS
Just in time for Facebook to roll out their new user experience, major corporations aren’t buying ads on the platform. A consistently growing list of companies are joining an ad buying protest on the platform, because Facebook doesn’t do enough to halt the spread of hate and racist speech on the platform. This isn’t the first time we’ve reported on Facebook not being able to stop all hate speech and whether or not it does enough. After employing tens of thousands of human moderators to halt hate, speech more than enough content still goes through. List of companies boycotting Facebook is a Who’s Who of American business spanning across all industries. The boycott is expected to last through July or when Facebook changes its policies.
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