Facebook Let Russia Target African Americans. Now the NAACP Is Calling for a Boycott.

[pecosbob]

Good article...

On Tuesday, the NAACP launched a weeklong boycott of Facebook in response to two congressionally commissioned reports that illustrate how Russian trolls on the platform not only targeted people of color, but made stoking racial tensions one of their top priorities.

“Facebook’s engagement with partisan firms, its targeting of political opponents, the spread of misinformation and the utilization of Facebook for propaganda promoting disingenuous portrayals of the African American community is reprehensible,” NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson said in a statement. The organization also announced Monday it had returned a recent donation from the company.

read more at https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/russia-facebook-naacp-boycott/

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Sign me up.

By logging out. FB is UnAmerican. Advertise somewhere else, write down phone numbers and email, stop being lazy, and call your friends and family. FB sold us out.

[kimbutgar]

2. I believe it was true and is still going to to this day

Recently I got a Facebook request from a friend of my late fathers who is like 96 years old and African American. I have been on Facebook with him in the past. But I quit facebooking in April of this year. So I know someone is using his account to troll me.

[democratisphere]

3. fakebook needs to go out of business.

[LuckyCharms]

11. +1

[Irishxs]

4. I've already done that. There's really a life after fab

I’m not African American but I am boycotting Facebook, mostly because of Zuckerberg. He’s a little brat and can’t control what he built.

[fierywoman]

5. I've never joined facebook but recently I joined a very vibrant art community that

does part of its communicating (and communing) on FB -- though I want to interact with these people, for the life of me I can't bring myself to join. Any suggestions as to how to be on but be super private?

[Merlot]

8. I've faced the same problem

A couple groups on meetup moved to FB (it's free and MU charges) so I get that. One group started an email of monthly events. The other one I hear about word of mouth...or text.

Sucks, but still not worth signing up to FB.

[fierywoman]

10. Thanks for sharing!

[Merlot]

12. To answer your question regarding being on FB and staying private

There was a thread here (sorry no link) about how FB gave all kinds of tech companies access to users private information.

So, short answer, no, there's no way to be on FB and private.

[Squinch]

6. Why just the NAACP? Facebook LET RUSSIA TARGET AFRICAN AMERICANS! We should ALL boycot.

[Dawson Leery]

7. Mark Zuckerberg and the entire executive cabal at Facebook

deserve to live under and overpass.

...and there is no metaphor here. They deserve to live destitute under an overpass.

[pecosbob]

9. The American Dream...

living destitute under an overpass.

[dalton99a]

14. +1. Zuckerberg made billions by letting people demonize and brutalize minorities on his platform

[dalton99a]

13. Kick

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. facebook's business model is selling you

I've been boycotting facebook since its inception. Its business model is selling you (your data) to others.

The EU has a law that establishes that you own your data. We need one, too. As it is right now, data belongs to whoever gets it. You don't own data about you that a corporation takes. Does that make sense?