Article 55FY9 Facebook boycott organizers call Mark Zuckerberg meeting ‘a disappointment’

Facebook boycott organizers call Mark Zuckerberg meeting ‘a disappointment’

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Russell Brandom
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After months of escalating pressure, leaders from the #StopHateForProfit boycott campaign met with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives today. But in a call with reporters after the meeting, organizers from Color of Change, Free Press, the NAACP, and the Anti-Defamation League described the meeting as frustrating.

The meeting that we just left was a disappointment," said Color of Change president Rashad Robinson. At this point, we were expecting a very clear answer to the demands we are making, and we did not get that."

Held on Zoom, the meeting was slightly over an hour, and it included a variety of policy team leads as well as chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and chief product officer Chris Cox. But while...

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