350.org On Challenging Facebook’s Fossil Fuel Advertising Profits

Credit to Author: The Beam| Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 19:40:41 +0000

As has been outlined on countless occasions, large tech conglomerates play a critical role in our day-to-day lives. Platforms like Facebook, for instance, help connect over 2.38 billion monthly active users. Thus, their social responsibility in everything from politics, news and even climate change is indisputable. Despite Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing his support for the Paris Climate Agreement, Facebook continues to take money from many fossil fuel companies via advertising

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Who Is Behind 350.org’s #FossilFreeFacebook Campaign?

Credit to Author: The Beam| Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 19:40:41 +0000

As has been outlined on countless occasions, large tech conglomerates play a critical role in our day-to-day lives. Platforms like Facebook, for instance, help connect over 2.38 billion monthly active users. Thus, their social responsibility in everything from politics, news and even climate change is indisputable. Despite Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing his support for the Paris Climate Agreement, Facebook continues to take money from many fossil fuel companies via advertising

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Chinese state media pump up the jam to slam Hong Kong protests

Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 06:31:04 +0000

BEIJING — “Get those foreign agents outta town”, roars a music video by a patriotic Chinese rap group, one of a slew of creative efforts by Beijing attacking Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement as violent and spurred on by overseas governments. The rap video, overlaid with clips of protesters clashing with police and breaking into Hong […]

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Albayalde ‘advises’ media: Let’s just be balanced and be responsible

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 04:40:13 +0000

Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Oscar Albayalde on Tuesday advised media practitioners to be ‘balanced and responsible.”

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