Civil Rights Groups Push for Facebook Ad Boycott

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Anti-Defamation League, NAACP and others urge a Facebook advertising boycott

Several American civil-rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP, are encouraging big advertisers to pull spending from Facebook Inc. to protest what they say is the company’s failure to make its platform a less-hostile place.

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