Poor Mark Zuckerberg.
The Facebook founder and CEO is frequently attacked by the political right for a supposed left-wing slant in the social network’s algorithms and editorial decisions. And the American left — as evidenced by a historic, mounting ad boycott campaign against Facebook — is sure that Mr. Zuckerberg and Facebook are complicit in a vast right-wing/Russian conspiracy. Among other things, Facebook’s critics on the left blame the site for aiding Donald Trump’s election by promulgating “fake news” in 2016.
After a meeting with Zuckerberg and other Facebook execs to discuss the demands of a large advertiser boycott that now encompasses hundreds of brands, civil rights groups and activists ripped the company for treating their concerns as nothing more than an ornamental PR exercise. The American left now firmly believes that Facebook is no longer an agent of social progress, but an impediment to it.
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