Kim Kardashian West and other celebs to boycott Instagram for one day to protest Facebook's 'failures'
Kim Kardashian West and other celebrities will boycott Instagram for one day to protest Facebook's 'failures'More than a dozen celebrities including Kim Kardashian West, Katy Perry, Michael B. Jordan and Ashton Kutcher said they will participate in a 24-hour Instagram "freeze" on Wednesday as part of the "Stop Hate For Profit" movement "in protest of Facebook's repeated failures to address hate speech and election disinformation on their platforms.
"Stop Hate for Profit" is asking Instagram users to join a 24-hour "freeze" Wednesday, during which they put up a message about "the damage Facebook does" and refraining from posting on the platform that day.A group of celebrities including Kim Kardashian West, Katy Perry, Michael B.
Specifically, the organization wants Facebook to remove Facebook Groups that promote white supremacy, hate and violent conspiracies; forbid any event page with a call to arms and eliminate a politician exemption for political and voting content, among other requests.
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