This is essentially a KKK rally with major national advertisers and cable distribution.
Fox has flooded the airways with so much racism and bigotry that we’ve become numb to just how unhinged this is. Six years ago, the backlash to this type of rhetoric on a major cable network would have been swift and ferocious enough to get the host fired immediately. Now? Nada.
Fox has successfully convinced (some) advertisers and all of their distributors that they represent a political side, which shields them from any criticism.

In fact, it’s just straight up old school racism. And COVID denial. And antivaxx conspiracies.
If any employee of one of the cable companies that carries Fox or any of the remaining corporations that advertise on the network said this word for word at their office, they’d be rightly shown the door immediately.

Yet, they think nothing of pumping money into it nightly.

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More from @slpng_giants

16 Dec
NEW: We’ve tried just about everything to get Facebook (@Meta) to deal with unfettered hate EXCEPT shareholder activism.

We’ve just launched a new campaign with a new app called @iconikapp, which helps organize retail investors for collective action.
markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/ic…
Our campaign asks are the following:

Give researchers more transparency into their data and insights through CrowdTangle.

Give researchers more data around takedowns of problematic content like hate and extremism.
What’s cool about this is that anyone invested currently in Facebook can take real, concrete action with their proxies.

Retail investors tend to ignore these proxies, but this allows them to organize to not cede power to larger investors like, say, Peter Thiel.
Read 5 tweets
16 Dec
“David Broniatowski, of George Washington University, said the groups had targeted Facebook ads to reach women of childbearing age using demographic data.”

It’s remarkable how much social networks, like @Meta @Twitter & @YouTube are responsible for this pandemic.
The chase for eyeballs, ad dollars and higher stock valuations have a direct link to the spread of COVID.

Despite their PR efforts which say otherwise, all of these platforms are still rife with antivaxx content and COVID disinformation at scale.
Look at Kennedy’s criminally irresponsible site has links RIGHT NOW to their pages on @Twitter @Facebook & @instagram, not to mention @telegram, MeWe, Gab and Parler.

Without the gas these networks provide, this “movement” wouldn’t be a 100th as large as it is now.
Read 4 tweets
13 Apr
With the full backing of Fox News brass, Tucker Carlson now has zero holding him back from advancing white supremacist rhetoric to millions.

Which corporations are still willing to stand with this network? Which advertisers see nothing wrong with Replacement theory?
Which cable companies will stand by a network whose host called white supremacy a “hoax” and will continue to make its customers pay $24 a year for it?
Which shareholders and funds see nothing wrong with a host who said Immigrants make our country “poorer, dirtier and more divided”?
Read 5 tweets
12 Apr
When a platform makes its users sign massive legal agreements, yet they don’t meet the extremely low bar of, you know, NOT EXPOSING ALL OF THEM TO FRAUD AND INVASION OF PRIVACY, there needs to be some recourse.
Imagine if a bank just *lost* money from 500 million customers. It would be in the news for the next 5 years, there would be massive investigations and they’d be sued into the ground.

Yet, @facebook loses the personal information of half a BILLION users and no one cares.
Read 5 tweets
9 Apr
Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist.
Each week, distributors like @ATT @xfinity @GetSpectrum @YouTubeTV @verizonfios @DIRECTV and @dish amplify their ideas from this white supremacist to millions.
Everyday, companies like @KraftHeinzCo @progressive @CharlesSchwab @pfizer @ProcterGamble @amazon @allstate & @verizon send millions in advertising dollars to the network that broadcasts this white supremacist.
Read 6 tweets
8 Apr
Today, raging racist Steven Crowder pretended to be George Floyd as he was murdered.

This is being monetized by @youtube via advertisers.

Advertisers should walk out on @SusanWojcicki’s platform en masse if Crowder is not banned for this. This is not a safe platform for them.
Like Alex Jones, @YouTube built this person’s career by giving him reach far beyond what he’d ever get without them and handed him millions in ad dollars for the privilege.

@TeamYouTube continues to make the world a worse place by giving amplification to the very worst humans.
Advertisers who posted and tweeted in support of racial justice last summer should, if they really meant it, walk out of @YouTube until they do something about this and the rampant racism that is amplified and rewarded on this platform.
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