take a look, injust a few short days, patagonia, upwork,, temp two —— mozilla.ompany saying, it is time to take a stand. i believe this will have a facebook —— impact when facebook realises this is not just impact when facebook realises this is notjust about a request from a few stakeholders, this is a shareholder imperative which will hurt their bottom line as they really start to fight bigotry. well, we will see, and we will come back to you. jonathan greenblatt from the anti—defamation league, thank you so much. thank you for having me. saudi arabia has banned international visitors from making the islamic pilgrimage at the end of next month, in a bid to control coronavirus. it will interrupt plans for millions of people, as our reporter freya cole explains. before covid—i9, millions of people from around the world make the islamic pilgrimage to the holy city of mecca. there had been fears the hajj this year might be cancelled. but instead, only saudi citizens will be allowed to attend. in the new era of social distancing, the ban on international visitors wi

the sporting goods maker patagonia is the latest us company to suspend its advertising. boycott, at least until the end ofjuly. the company said "the stakes were too high" for the company to remain "complicit in spreading misinformation and fomenting fear." facebook said it was committed to "advancing equity and racial justice", and has long argued it isn't facebook‘s role to police speech. steven levy is the editor—at—large of wired magazine. he's also the author of facebook: the inside story and spent years embedded at the company while researching it. he's speaking to us from massachusetts. what's going on here? what is most likely to happen? what is most likely to happen? what is most likely to happen? what is most likely is the culmination of years of complaints about facebook‘s alleged, you know, complicity, really, in speech which is, you know, directed against minorities. divisive speech, hate speech. what is going to happen is i think facebook is under the kind of pressure it has not been under before, not only externally from groups like stop hate for profit, b

the sporting goods maker patagonia is the latest american company to suspend advertising.t untill the end ofjuly. the company says "the stakes are too high" for facebook to be "complicit in spreading misinformation and fomenting fear" facebook says it is committed to "advancing equity and racial justice," and has long argued it isn't itsjob to police speech. joel finkelstein is the director fo the contagion network research institute, an organisation which tracks the sources and spread of hate online. hejoins us from he joins us from princeton, hejoins us from princeton, new jersey. good to talk to you. what is your research showing you about how misinformation and hate speech is spread online? great question. fundamentally, what our research does, is we look at the spread of viral codewords, memes and in—group signalling among extremists and violent actors. the funny thing is that these ideas tend to spread a loss like a disease. they need to be tracked carefully so we can understand how they are influencing us, not just with the how they are influencing us, notjust with

in that time frame but facebook has unlimited slots so somebody just going to fill that void of patagonia or north face in some capacity unless like you said they they are able to get more support for their cause and now we've seen other tech companies like twitter take more hardline positions on twitter say from the president and some of his speech how does facebook compare actually in that avenue. yes i think that's a lot of what this is about this really comes down to the fact that these organizations don't like the fact that they spoke is not censoring the president or not censoring political ads in particular remember mark zuckerberg has said that he is not going to do any kind of fact check of political ads to determine whether they are accurate or not which of course as a journalist is very troubling for me not because i think facebook should be in the business of fact checking political ads it's because facebook is in the business of fact checking journalists in fact checking information all the time they just happen to decide that this is the case where they won't but we have see

speech and this information about list of companies continues to grow at brands like north face patagonia up work in r.e.i. saying they will pause advertising on facebook. an instagram to show support for a movement called hashtags stop hate for profit now the groups say the boycott is in response to facebook's long history of allowing racist violent and verifiably false content to run rampant on its platform joining us now to discuss his bus co-hosted investigative journalist fence one bet i feel like we put you on the facebook be quite often but you're so darn good at what we do here now this boycott is clearly not being started by advertisers so who is behind it yes it's actually a kind of a coalition of groups we're talking about the end of a c p the anti-defamation league but maybe 2 of the more famous and then you have some smaller groups are not not as well known but this is what they primarily do they focus on trying to drive advertisers away from content that they don't approve of we're talking about groups like sleeping giants color of change free press and common sense these ar

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. >> renee, you know, when you look at companies like patagonia, ben & jerry's, tom's, companies thatn front of this and have been in front of it, one of the things brian talks about is authentically being who you are. some of these companies are authentically about change. ben & jerry's is part of a major company but have managed to keep their dna. they talked about white supremacy. patagonia costs more than what you pay for the same thing elsewhere but there's a company that's authentic in what it believes in in terms of social and climate change. that's a place that millenials and socially conscious buyers seem to move toward. >> i think it matters. i think it matters that people are not just buying a brand, they're buying into what that brand represents. if you look at ben & jerry's, as you said, that's who they have always said. they have always been political active and thought about social justice. when you look at a company like quaker oats and when they make what i found was a disingenuous statement by saying they now recognize that aunt jemima is racist, you just now figured

verizon joins other companies, ben & jerry's, rei, patagonia, the north face, the naacp and the anti-defamation league are leading the campaign. they say facebook is allowing misinformation and propaganda to take hold of their website ahead of the election. >>> our time is 4:47. a marin county transgendered teenager is getting support from his community after he was harassed by adults in a local park. >> you look like a female. >> okay, ma'am, ma'am! >> he says the adults started harassing him because he had pride flags. when he said he was a trans- man, they ridiculed him and said he was brainwashed and confused. the community rallied around him to support marginalized communities hoping to raise awareness. >> he really held his cool a lot better than a lot of other people would have. he was the adult in this situation. we are very proud of him. >> that sort of hate is not okay, to reference someone's genitals, especially in minor, that is incredibly low and disgusting. >> police have identified the two adults and investigators are asking the district attorney to charge them with disturbing th

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boycotting is what's going on richard big names like ben and jerry's patagonia north face it's a growing list of advertisers who say that they're going to stay away from facebook for the in time month of july over the platforms failure to do more to remove hate speech it's all part of a new campaign called stop hate for profit a group formed after the killing of george floyd and the subsequent protests the organizers which include the a.d.l. and the end of a p put out this joint statement the social media company is amplifying the messages of white supremacists permitting incitement to violence and is failing to disrupt bad actors using the platform to do harm that has been a lot of criticism over facebook including some from c.e.o. mark zuckerberg own staff over its failure to take action on inflammatory posts from among others president trump and what impact is this boycott likely to have on the company's operations 99 percent of facebook's revenue comes from advertising almost 70000000000 dollars last year alone so the campaign organizers are hoping that by encouraging companies to bo

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across the street we've got the patagonia.t you're seeing is people of all ages, all backgrounds helping themselves, using black lives matter as the reason. it is throughout santa monica. why are you doing this are you part of black lives matter? what's the deal, guys? even were 4 arr and clawereutde. police chief cynthia renaud says the looters took advantage of the peaceful protesters. >> there are opportunists. >> reporter: the national guard helped control the crowds. there was also common ground. but it can't undo the damage done. >> for those who are acting criminally, we see you and the police will arrest you. those who are peacefully protesting, we see you and thank you. >> reporter: and we are here where once again we have seen a peaceful protest overtaken by looters, police making a dozen arrests. hundreds of police officers are combing the streets trying to enforce a curfew that began about 30 minutes ago. they have backup, the national guard sending in 2,000 troops t. norah. >> o'donnell: incredible scenes, thank y

and i were just talking about before they really came on board you have brands like eddie bauer patagonia north face these aren't lightweights but they don't have the same kind of spending that these 2 companies had in 2019 your lover about $42000000.00 advertising revenue source spending on facebook it's estimated starbucks $95000000.00 so together almost $140000000.00 worth of advertising spending on that platform that really ups the ante here we should point out starbucks $2900.00 times in revenue $70000000000.00 that's about 99 percent of its total revenue it comes from advertising so it makes more of a debt but in the grand scheme of things it's not huge it's more about what the brand can be tarnished if the brand can be tarnished and facebook sees that that's the case they're responding a bit more and in terms of the response facebook did institute some new rules in addition to hate speech on the platform is that not proving sufficient for these brands no not at all in fact starbucks decided to join this boycott after facebook made this announcement on friday so that shows that it's

the sporting goods maker patagonia is the latest american company to suspend its advertising on facebook. mark zuckerberg has faced heavy criticism, some from his own staff, for his decision not to remove controversial posts by president trump. he insists facebook is committed to "advancing equity and racialjustice." now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. president trump has just strengthened us sanctions against the international criminal court, describing it as an extraordinary threat to the united states. well, my guest today is the president of the icc, chile eboe—0suji. now, the court was set up to and impunity for the worst of crimes. so is it now time to acknowledge that that grand ambition will never be realised? judge chile eboe—0suji in the hague, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for having me. it's an honour to be here. well, we're delighted to have you on at this very sensitive time for the international criminal court. president donald trump has declared your court an extraordinary threat to the united states of america. you are locked in

the facebook popular platform for advertising may include the popular outdoor brand north face of patagonia is also among the men as you mentioned of course ben and jerry's ice cream have now joined the growing list essentially telling mark zuckerberg enough is enough they're rising up against facebook for continuing to allow inflammatory rhetoric and misinformation that fueling division and heights in the u.s. at a time at the moment when the u.s. is going through such a time up he evil so it's comments like one made by president donald trump posted late in may that many took to be an incitement to violence it is of course that when the looting starts the shooting starts which people there was an incitement of violence against black lives matter protest is now just a bit of context twitter did take steps to make the same post on its website how to read and put a warning on it facebook didn't do the same thing and that led civil rights groups to launch the campaign stop hate us a profit in a strongly worded statement they accused facebook of amplifying white nationalist allowing incitement

time well we're talking about some pretty big companies like the popular outdoor brand north face patagonia is another one and just today ben and jerry's ice cream of the latest big name to join the growing list essential telling. enough is enough they're rising up against facebook continuing to allow inflammatory rhetoric and misinformation to fuel division and hate in the u.s. particularly this time when there's a lot of upheaval already going on in the u.s. now it's comments like this one from president donald trump in which he posted in late may there it is when the looting starts the shooting starts how many took it as an incitement to violence against black lives matters protest that blacks. lives matter excuse me protesters out as a comment that even facebook's own employees had kind of fearing for their lives basically it led civil rights groups to launch this campaign stop hate for profit now in a strongly worded statement the campaign accused facebook of amplifying i think we have it we might be able to pull it up for you but if not it's amplifying white nationalist allowing incit

across the street we've got the patagonia.t you're seeing is people of all ages, all backgrounds helping themselves, using black lives matter as the reason. it is throughout santa monica. why are you doing this are you part of black lives matter? what's the deal, guys? eventually police proved in. santa monica officials say there were 400 arrests and claim 95% were outsiders. police chief cynthia renaud says the looters took advantage of the peaceful protesters. >> there are opportunists. >> reporter: the national guard helped control the crowds. there was also common ground. but it can't undo the damage done. this couple saw their optometry ransacked on the eve of finally reopening their doors. covid has kept people away for nearly three months. >> never in a million years did we think it would happen to us. >> my life savings was in here that just got destroyed. >> reporter: more than 100 stores were damaged in santa monica tonight across l.a. stores are boarding up their windows ahead of more protests. the national guard se

the sporting goods maker patagonia is the latest american company to suspend its advertising on facebook. mark zuckerberg has faced heavy criticism, some from his own staff, for his decision not to remove controversial posts by president trump. he insists facebook is committed to "advancing equity and racial justice". a father and his two children were killed when they were hit by a car yesterday at dalton—in—furness in cumbria. joshua flynn, who ws 37, his 15—year—old son coby-jay, and his 12—year—old daughter skylar had been enjoying a father's day walk. a local man has been arrested on suspicion of three counts of causing death by dangerous driving — and of being over the alcohol limit. he remains in police custody. 0ur correspondent danny savage reports. yesterday afternoon, joshua flynn, his son coby—jay and daughter skylar went out for a father's day family walk, but they never came home. they were run over and killed on the outskirts of dalton—in—furness, in south cumbria. the 47—year—old man who was driving the car which hit them was arrested for drink—driving and was also detain

what i would be talking about some pretty big companies that was a popular outdoor brand north face patagonia another is that just recently joined today ben and jerry's ice cream joining yet very proper big companies joining this growing list essentially telling enough is enough they're rising up against facebook for continuing to allow inflammatory rhetoric and misinformation to fuel division and height particularly in the u.s. at a time when it's going through such a pivotal now it's comments like this one from president trump he posted it in late may that many took to be an incitement to violence against black lives matters protest is. it's a comment that left even some of facebook's own employees sort of scared for their lives and livelihoods now that led civil rights groups to launch the campaign stop the hate for profit so in a strongly worded statement this campaign may. used facebook of amplifying white nationalists allowing incitement to violence and turning a blind eye to voters and press suppression and that something else that trump has posted controversial comments about so the c

the sporting goods maker patagonia is the latest us company to suspend its advertising. facebook has faced heavy criticism, including from its own staff, for chief executive mark zuckerberg's decision not to remove a controversial post by president trump. facebook said it was committed to "advancing equity and racial justice". it is about 2:30am in the morning. now on bbc news — today in parliament. hello again, and welcome to monday in parliament. praise for the police who tackled an armed killer. these officers are heroes. they showed courage, bravery, and selflessness way beyond their years. they are the very best of us. confusion over the catch—up plans for schools in england. labour demand answers. and now, i hear that schools will need to find 25% of tuition funding themselves. so i ask the secretary — what on earth happened? and a warning for ministers over ditched plans for a covid—19 tracing app. make no mistake, my lords. this fiasco will have fatal consequences. but first: the home secretary has praised the police officers who "ran towards danger to help those

patagonia has suspended advertising. facebook has faced criticism from its own staff.stice. saudi arabia has banned international visitors from making the islamic pilgrimage at the end of next month, in a bid to control coronavirus. it will interrupt plans for millions of people, as our reporter freya cole explains. before covid—19, millions of people from around the world make the islamic pilgrimage to the holy city of mecca. there had been fears the hajj this year might be cancelled. but instead, only saudi citizens will be allowed to attend. in the new era of social distancing, the ban on international visitors will help authorities control numbers. local pilgrims who will still descend for prayer, but it will look very different to this. only a limited number of people will be allowed to attend, according to state media. saudi arabia is the worst affected gulf state when it comes to coronavirus. lockdown measures are slowly easing, mosques are reopening, but there is still a ban on those gatherings and there are any restrictions. translation: starting from the brow

big companies that have announced that they're pulling their advertising others include verizon patagonia and north face well in response facebook saying it expanding its advertising policies to ban ads that make racist claims and now facebook has announced that it will flag all posts from politicians that break its rules including those from u.s. president donald trump is we're going to start labeling content. that we find newsworthy that might otherwise violate our policies there's no newsworthy exemption to content that incites violence or suppresses vote even if a politician or a government official says it if we determine the content maybe we need it to violence or deprive people of their right to vote we're going to take the content out no matter who says it james warren is executive editor of news guard a site which rates the credibility of news information sites he says the announcement by facebook hasn't had a lot of attention. i think it's perhaps because a lot of folks who follow facebook see it as a very characteristic almost minimalist response to criticisms they tend to be a

large companies that have announced they're pulling that advertising others include varieties on patagoniaand north face in response facebook says expanding its advertising policies to ban ads and make false racist claims. and now facebook has announced that it will fly goal posts from politicians that break its rules including those from u.s. president donald trump is we're going to start labeling content. that we find newsworthy that might otherwise violate our policies there's no newsworthy exemption to content that incites violence or suppresses even if a politician or a government official says it if we determine that content may lead to violence or deprive people of their right to vote we're going to take the content down no matter who says it. james warren is executive editor of news guard assigned which rates credibility of news information sites joins me now from chicago via skype good of you with us back on the program james it does seem that facebook is rolling back its sort of stance because it's coming under more public pressure to act in the face of what other social platform

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saw verizon come out and say they were joining this boycott, and they joined other companies like patagonia and eileen fisher and ben & jerry's, and all these companies have really been in solidarity with the movement. they want to put pressure on facebook. they don't what lip service, they want action. these kinds of protests have not always made a big dent in facebook is this overall, but it is getting their attention. they are calling companies and trying to talk to them about the issues they are raising, so it is going to continue to be an issue that is going to be brought up, especially leading into the november elections in the u.s. francine: we have also seen brands in asia make plans on white own sale of products. jennifer: it was interesting to see them make their own statement about how they are tied to the racist past that they have. in particular, we saw the indian subsidiary of linda yet -- of unilever come out to say they were going to remove references white" onlight, and their product. also their "fair and lovely" brand. johnson & johnson said they are going to take action w

comfortable and is county with what we have done with youtube and other partners rei, ben and jerry's, and patagonia have pledged to stop they have paused their spending indefinitely now verizon is the biggest spender of the protesting brands spending two million on facebook and instagram in the past month. facebook's advertising chief telling us in a statement "we respect any brand's decision and remain focused on the important work of removing hate speech and providing critical voting information" now they did push back at the boycott more we do not make policy changes tied to revenue pressure now in that e-mail, they really tried to focus on facebook's process. around pulling down offensive progress and to get better at that to remindti tizadvertisersy have been working on that for years. >> that interesting message to me, i was concerned about the longer pause a lot of companies looking to cut back markets spend anyway. how much of that factors into this how strict is verizon being about the kinds of changes they want to see before they jump back in and how long do you think this will really las

we also saw companies like rei, patagonia, ben & jerry's come out and say they were going to halt adon facebook. in the past, these protests and boycotts of facebook do not make much of a dent on the platform but facebook seems to be getting the message because they have reportedly sent out a memo to their partners saying that we are taking this really asleep. we are hearing what you are saying. we are open to discussing some of the issues you are bringing up. so the pressure is on. is on the pressure certainly. it is also the pressure that is on in asia. we are seeing the racial region,s spread to that where racist marketing is particularly problematic. what are brands saying? jennifer: brands over the past few days have become more and more racially aware in asia, so a few days ago, we saw unilever say that their indian subsidiary, which markets their brand fair and lovely, plans to change the name and also remove references to fairness, lightness, and whiteness from their products. color is him is a major issue in this region, so we also saw johnson & johnson say they were going t

other big names, pepsico, patagonia, coca-cola, starbucks, the list is on as you can see, facebook isarket cap of $616 billion but they lost $60 billion in valuations in the last two days and the stock is under pressure in the free market today. >> this isn't really a surprise with covid-19 but summer travel could be a record low. >> day -- so much for the holiday road. americans are projected to take fewer trips this summer compared to 2019, the first time we seen this data, since 2009. according to aaa, 700 million trips are projected from july 1st to september 30th. if not for the pandemic 857 million people would be traveling right now, 97% of trips going to be a writer, aaa says there's a big increase in last minute trip planning which makes sense because you could still go but are they open or are they not open, scaling back, real tough to figure out. >> i been thinking of renting an rv and doing a road trip and a lot of people are thinking of doing that. >> you are not off because a girlfriend of mine just bought a camper and is living in the forest. >> like the griswolds. soun

patagonia,erizon, just some of the companies the stop hate for pay program.he adl is a number of civil rights groups unhappy without facebook and moderating its contact and what they say is a long history of allowing posts that encourage voter suppression. joining us is the ceo of the anti-defamation league, jonathan greenback. jonathan, thank you so much. talk to us about what you're hearing from advertisers at this moment, as your campaign is picking up steam. jonathan: sure. stop paper profit is a long time advertising campaign organized by adl, the naacp, color of change, and a bunch of other groups specifically to tackle the problem of hate online gaming we focused on facebook because they are the largest social network in the world, and the biggest advertising platform on the planet. , our phoneshis call are been ringing off the hook with advertisers. -- mentioned, verizon or verizon, unilever, north face, honda joined this afternoon, birch box join this afternoon, and i can tell you more are coming. advertisers, who have seen their own ads published ag

is joining a boat caught, verizon says it will not buy ads for the month of july, ben & jerry's, patagonia and north face are also on board, the naacp and anti-defamation league are leading the campaign, they say facebook is allowing misinformation and propaganda to take hold on their website. >>> tonight it is cool out there, the marine layer has moved in but it was not cool and lynn today, a lot of 90s out there and in fact if we take a look there is a heat advisory for some inland communities in our viewing area from places like fairfield onto vallejo, you can see the advisory and solano county and northern counties go to 10 pm friday, but seller county goes until 8 pm on saturday. these are the highs today while it was 64 degrees in san francisco check out antioch, the further and let you go the warmer it got today, 80s in santa rosa and morgan hill, take a look at the current temperatures certainly not seeing any 90s now, santa rosa 59 degrees san francisco 56, 66 in san jose at this hour and that marine layer is going to keep us cool again temperatures will be in the mid-50s to low 6