#FBrape campaign scores quick victory against Facebook hate
speech | MIT Center for Civic Media  #FBrape campaign scores
quick victory against Facebook hate speech  How many major
brands need to pull their advertising from Facebook to affect
its policies governing speech?  One, apparently.  Last week I
wrote up the #FBrape campaign's strategy: to hold Facebook
accountable for the misogynistic content of its users by
pressuring advertisers. Only seven days after the open letter
was published, Marne Levine, Facebook's VP of Global Publicy
Policy, published a response agreeing to the campaign's demands
to better train the company's moderators, improve reporting
processes, and hold offending users more accountable for the
content they publish.  The campaigners say they generated 5,000
emails to advertisers, and convinced Nissan to pull its
advertising from the platform. This is great initial traction
for a social media advocacy campaign, but it represents a
miniscule percentage of Facebook's users and advertisers