Facebook Communications Head Says Company Has ‘No Incentive to Tolerate Hate Speech’

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDisney, the biggest spender on advertising with Facebook in the first half of 2020, has reportedly suspended ads for Disney Plus and Hulu with the social giant.Disney recently has “dramatically slashed” advertising with Facebook, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing anonymous sources.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorQuibi, Jeffrey Katzenberg’s beleaguered mobile streaming startup, got 910,000 people to sign up for free 90-day trials upon its April launch, according to new data from research firm Sensor Tower.The bad news, according to the company: Only 72,000 subscribers stuck around and decided to pay $5 a month (or $8 without ads) for the service, out of 4.5 million total downloads of the app.

were announced as part of Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s wider plan to boost the UK’s economy as it looks to recover from coronavirus.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook simply has not done enough to fight problems including hate speech and voter suppression, according to a report culminating a two-year independent audit of the social giant’s practices and policies.

Matthew Carey A growing list of advertisers has joined a temporary boycott of Facebook, pressuring the company to do more to curtail hate speech and misinformation on the world’s most powerful social media platform.The campaign has coalesced around the hashtags #StopHateForProfit and #DetoxFacebook, and while so far only 800 or so of Facebook’s 8 million advertisers have pulled ads, it has put Facebook policies into sharp relief.

Gabrielle Union is more than ready for bikini season. The filmmaker and activist recently took to social media, where she shared a few dazzling photos of herself in a black bandeau bikini.

Robbie Williams said he was threatened with being beheaded while working for a charity in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.

Robbie Williams and his wife Ayda Field were threatened with being beheaded during a charity trip to Haiti in 2010.The former Take That star and actress Ayda travelled to the country following a devastating 2010 earthquake, but were left fearing for their lives when they were ambushed by bandits during the four-day trip.Speaking on his Postcards from the Edge podcast, Robbie said: “I got threatened to be beheaded in Haiti. We were going out there to help.

Robbie Williams has revealed that he and wife Ayda Field were threatened with being beheaded while doing charity work in Haiti.The singer visited the Caribbean country with Unicef after the 2010 earthquake which left  an estimated 250,000 dead and 1.5 million people without homes.Recalling the scary incident on Field’s Postcards from the Edge podcast, Williams said: ‘I got threatened to be beheaded in Haiti.

Ayda Field told how they were left terrified during their four-day trip to Haiti as they feared for their life.Speaking on his podcast, Postcards from the Edge, the singer revealed: ‘I got threatened to be beheaded in Haiti.

Woody Allen’s film “A Rainy Day in New York” was expected to be released more than two years ago. However, with the filmmaker’s past coming back to haunt him with allegations of sexual abuse still being lobbed his way, combined with his comments about #MeToo, ‘Rainy Day’ was dropped by Amazon Studios and has yet to be released in North America.

This Monday, Hot New Hip Hop reported, Reddit banned the subreddit, “r/The_Donald,” for violating the website’s terms and conditions. The outlet says that Reddit has been purging its website of controversial groups, approximately 2,000 of them, over the last few months.

Stop Hate for Profit campaign, People reports, which calls on businesses to stop advertising on Facebook to protest its failure to deplatform racist hate speech. Facebook was recently condemned for its refusal to remove Donald Trump's post inciting violence against Black Lives Matter protestors—"when the looting starts the shooting starts," Trump wrote on both Facebook and Twitter—and has long been criticized for enabling the spread of hate speech and misinformation.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorYouTube has kicked a half-dozen hate-mongering channels off the platform for good, including those operated by white supremacist Richard Spencer, ex-Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and far-right provocateur Stefan Molyneaux.“We have strict policies prohibiting hate speech on YouTube, and terminate any channel that repeatedly or egregiously violates those policies,” a YouTube representative said in a statement.On Monday, YouTube banned six channels for hate-speech

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