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Spotlight on Facebook Groups Affects Microsoft

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hate-to-be-in-the-marketing-managers-shoes dept.

NewsCloud writes "After Slashdot reported Facebook Exposes Advertisers To Hate Speech, the company removed its F**k Islam group for a day (it's back up now). According to the New York Times, 'Facebook declined to comment on Friday on the subject of hate speech or on what steps had been taken.' It turns out that Microsoft is the digital advertising provider for Facebook serving up ads for companies such as NetFlix, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon and Coca Cola. But for now, the Microsoft-served ads for all Facebook group home pages (even those complying with Facebook's Terms of Use) appear to have been taken off the site. For its part, NetFlix told me to address any concerns about its own ad placement along obscene speech with Facebook. T-Mobile said they would look into it."

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  1. The Ron Paul FaceBook Group has +21k members by SonicSpike · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Ron Paul FaceBook Group has +21k members:
    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2229718737

    The convergence of political activism on FaceBook is starting to become prominent.

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    Libertas in infinitum
  2. Re:Free speech by that+IT+girl · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Mod parent up...

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  3. Re:ok but by blowdart · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There are ads? Damn my adblock for taking away revenue from slashdot's non-news stories.