'Facebook is more interested in dialogues than action and outcomes...At the end of the day...they've done nothing, I should say, to keep our society safe and protect our democracy,' NAACP CEO Derrick Johnson said after a meeting with Facebook executives.
with Sleeping Giants and Common Sense, urging Facebook to do more to stop the spread of hate speech and misinformation. Leaders said the meeting, held via video conference, ran a little over an hour on Tuesday afternoon.
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on Tuesday morning said he and other leaders planned to ask Facebook to put civil rights leadership inside its C-suite, and ask for regular, independent audits published on how they're dealing with hate content, among other requests.and literally we went through the 10 and we didn't get commitments or timeframes or clear outcomes," he said during the press conference following the meeting with Facebook.
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