Kim Kardashian to freeze Facebook, Instagram accounts to protest hate speech
By Katie Paul
(Reuters) – Kim Kardashian West is turning into a member of various celebrities to freeze her Facebook and Instagram accounts on Wednesday, in a advertising marketing campaign urging the world’s biggest social media agency to curb the unfold of hate and propaganda.
“Misinformation shared on social media has a extreme impression on our elections and undermines our democracy,” Kardashian West wrote in an Instagram submit on Tuesday expressing assist for the “Stop Hate for Profit” advertising marketing campaign in opposition to Facebook Inc <FB.O>.
Actors along with Kerry Washington, Jennifer Lawrence and Sacha Baron Cohen moreover tweeted on Tuesday, calling on Facebook to do additional.
The advertising marketing campaign, launched by civil rights groups this summer time season, acquired the assistance of an entire bunch of foremost corporations in an selling boycott of the social media giant in July, although it had little impression on Facebook’s bottom line. …