Anonymous ID: da7e65 May 9, 2021, 4:20 p.m. No.13623251   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3270

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebooks-starbucks-leave-social-network-hate

Facebook Says Hateful Comments May Drive Starbucks From The Social Network

“Starbucks is in the process of evaluating their organic presence on FB, and whether they should continue to have a presence on the platform at all.”

Facebook is scrambling to prevent Starbucks from leaving its platform after the world’s largest coffee company said it was dismayed by hateful comments left on its posts about racial and social justice issues.

In internal discussions seen by BuzzFeed News, Facebook employees who manage the social network’s relationship with Starbucks wrote that the company has become so frustrated by the hate and intolerance on the platform that it may remove its Facebook page. Were Starbucks to do so, it would be one of the largest companies ever to sever ties with Facebook.

“Starbucks is in the process of evaluating their organic presence on FB, and whether they should continue to have a presence on the platform at all,” a Facebook employee wrote to their colleagues earlier this week. “Anytime they post (organically) in regards to social issues or their mission & values work (e.g. BLM, LGBTQ, sustainability/climate change, etc.) they are overwhelmed by negative/insensitive, hate speech related comments on their posts.”

The employee went on to note that Starbucks’s community management team has struggled to moderate hateful responses and is unable to disable comments on their page. They also relayed a series of questions from Starbucks management, which sought to understand how Facebook’s algorithms moderated or amplified comments on posts.

Starbucks’s reevaluation of its Facebook presence comes amid a wider reckoning of the hate and misinformation that continues to proliferate on the platform. Last week in the United Kingdom, the Premier League and its 20 associated soccer teams boycotted Facebook and its photo-sharing app, Instagram, for four days in an attempt to bring awareness to the constant racist abuse that players face on those platforms. Last year, Starbucks was one of hundreds of companies to stop advertising on Facebook as part of the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign, which sought to pressure the world’s largest social network into taking a harder stance on racist and hateful content.

Starbucks spokesperson Sanja Gould would not confirm if the company was considering removing its Facebook page, but said in a statement that the coffee corporation stands “against hate speech.”

“While some changes have been implemented, we believe more can be done to create welcoming and inclusive online communities,” she said about Facebook in a statement. “We work collaboratively with all companies we do business with to ensure any advertising done on our behalf is in alignment with our brand standards.”

In a statement, Facebook spokesperson Dani Lever said that Facebook offers "tools to limit this content from appearing on partners’ pages including ways for brands to control those who can comment on their posts."

"Our teams work with our clients around the world on various issues and as this post shows we are working with them to keep hate off of their pages," she said.

While plenty of companies have paused advertising on Facebook to make a statement, those moves have done little to dent a business that, even after the Stop Hate for Profit campaign, recorded a record $86 billion in revenue in 2020.

Anonymous ID: da7e65 May 9, 2021, 5:02 p.m. No.13623607   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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Anonymous ID: da7e65 May 9, 2021, 5:44 p.m. No.13623895   🗄️.is đź”—kun

https://twitter.com/CTVMarkVillani/status/1391128605871116289

#Calgary police have arrested Artur Pawlowski & Dawid Pawlowski, identified as organizers of a gathering that was in violation of Alberta's public health orders.