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      Climate activists target Facebook with an ice display in front of the U.S. Capitol on November 4, 2021 in Washington D.C.

      Tech Giants 'Cashing In on Climate Delay' Fuels Demand for Tobacco-Style Ad Ban

      "With vague or unenforced climate misinformation policies, platforms are profiting from activity that successfully delays the necessary action for a livable planet."

      Kenny Stancil
      Feb 15, 2023

      A report published Wednesday revealed the extent to which Big Tech platforms profit from selling advertising space to climate-wrecking oil and gas corporations, prompting calls for "tobacco-style" ad rules.

      "When we think of fossil fuel advertising, we tend to focus on the big TV commercials. But really, this propaganda is playing out across social media platforms, which are cashing in on the disinformation," Fossil Free Media director Janie Henn tweeted, encouraging people to read the report from the Stop Funding Heat campaign, a United Kingdom-based project with which he is not involved.

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      A phone featuring a Donald Trump is shown in front of a Facebook logo.

      Fight Over Trump Facebook Ban Called 'Huge Distraction' From Deeper Issues With Big Tech

      By obsessing about the former president's online status, warns one digital rights advocate, "we are utterly missing the point."

      Jessica Corbett
      Jan 26, 2023

      Fight for the Future director Evan Greer argued Wednesday that the battle over whether former President Donald Trump should be banned from major social media platforms like Facebook is "a huge distraction" from broader Big Tech conversations that are urgently needed.

      "Discussions about online content moderation and what policies are needed to ensure human rights, free expression, and safety are some of the most important and consequential societal debates in human history," Greer said in a statement. "When we center these debates about specific moderation decisions, especially ones involving high-profile, wealthy, politically powerful individuals like Donald Trump, we are utterly missing the point."

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      A mobile billboard outside Meta headquarters that reads "Facebook employees, don't let Trump and his disinformation back on Facebook."

      Trump's Return to Facebook Is About More Than Just Trump

      Trumpism online exploited what was already there: the profit-over-people business model of our digital spaces.

      Jelani Drew-Davi
      Jan 26, 2023

      Start my morning with me in May 2020: I've just fed my dog. I'm brushing my teeth. I'm mentally making my to-do list and trying to decide if I should stay in sweatpants for the third day in a row. And suddenly none of my plans matter, because Trump just posted an insinuation that Black Lives Matter activists should be shot. Facebook declines to remove the post while Mark Zuckerberg fixes his fingers to defend his decision. And my day is toast.

      Now that Meta has decided to let Trump back on Facebook and Instagram, I can't help but have flashbacks to recent years, when bracing myself for whatever fresh hell I would have to experience on the internet became a part of my morning routine.

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