Tag Archives: Boycott
PlayStation is the latest to join the Facebook ad boycott
Starbucks pauses all social media ads over hate speech concerns
The North Face pulls Facebook ads over hate and misinformation policies
Turkey’s president calls for a boycott of US electronics
As tensions mount between the US and Turkey, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is now calling for the country to boycott US electronics. He even called out the iPhone specifically -- a product he's often seen using. "Every product that we buy in...
FIFA 18 Players Boycott Black Friday Sale
FIFA 18 was one of EA Games biggest releases this year. Despite a few glitches in the Nintendo Switch gameplay, there were no major reports of the game being substandard. All of that changed when a...
Jack Dorsey responds to #WomenBoycottTwitter: New rules incoming
Last night #WomenBoycottTwitter spread among many high profile accounts that stood in solidarity with "victims of hate and harassment Twitter fails to support." The boycott itself wasn't without controversy and spawned responses including a push to h...
Twitter’s opaque thinking fails everyone
It seems like Twitter can't go long before finding itself embroiled in a new controversy about how it applies its conduct policies. And yet it's hard not to feel a sliver of sympathy in the face of the latest backlash against the ailing company. In s...
#WomenBoycottTwitter protest spreads across social media
Twitter has been home to many hashtag campaigns, but tonight one is trending that's a little different: #WomenBoycottTwitter. Sparked by its "temporary lock" of Rose McGowan's account yesterday, the movement's purpose is to go dark "In solidarity w @...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk won’t quit Trump’s advisory council
While a boycott movement that registered over 200,000 account deletions and messages from employees convinced Uber CEO Travis Kalanick to end his tenure on the president's economic advisory council, Elon Musk will not be moved. The Tesla and SpaceX C...