Sacha Baron Cohen and his celebrity brethren have a bone to pick with Facebook over misinformation and hate on its sprawling digital platforms.
In a preview of the #StopHateForProfit protest planned against Facebook FB, +2.35% on Wednesday, Cohen, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Orlando Bloom, Kerry Washington, and Kim Kardashian West are speaking out against the social-networking giant and some of the content that courses over its digital properties to 2.7 billion monthly active users.
See also: Facebook gives in to pressure on climate-change myths — including that antifa started deadly wildfires in western states — with new ‘science-based’ hub Cohen and Kardashian West are two of the more high-profile members of the protest, which is organized by a coalition of civil rights groups who in July called for an ad boycott of Facebook. Hundreds of companies, ranging from Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +1.64% to Starbucks Corp. SBUX, +1.24% , joined the boycott.
Protest organizers are particularly perturbed by what they call Facebook’s failure to shutter the page of a Kenosha, Wisc., militia group. Last week, Facebook said it removed misinformation on its platform that antifa activists were setting blazes on the West Coast.
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