Stop Hate for Profit Campaign Suspends Social Media Ads

B1 – Intermediate

A lot of businesses has either been suspended or paused for all of their social media advertisements because of hashtag “Stop Hate For Profit” from a campaign group. They demanded a stricter moderation for hate speech and misinformation. When the campaign skyrocketed, major brands paused their social media platform advertisements making Facebook lose a lot of money.

Read the article below to know more about it.

https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2007/200702-stop-hate-for-profit-4.html

Discussion Questions:

  1. What is the “Stop Hate For Profit” campaign all about?
  2. What do you think about it?
  3. How prevalent are hate speech/contents and misinformation on social media in your country?
  4. How do you feel about the social media advertisements these days?
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4 replies on “Stop Hate for Profit Campaign Suspends Social Media Ads”

1. What is the “Stop Hate For Profit” campaign all about?
A campaign against posts, and communications containing hate speech and misinformation,… made on some social networks.
2. What do you think about it?
I agree, not everything is acceptable in the name of press freedom.
3. How did this affect the market value of Facebook and what did CEO Mark Zuckerberg do afterwards?
The stock market value of Facebook has been devalued by 11%. Facebook has said it will ban hateful content and posts that make false claims about voting
4. How will people be affected by this campaign?
People will find less advertising on social networks as a result of the boycott of companies that promote this type of message.
5. How do you feel about social media advertisements?
I usually block ads on all my devices.

Appreciate the time and efforts you put into your writing practice. Just stay consistent.

See how you can express this sentence better:

A campaign against posts, and communications containing hate speech and misinformation,… made on some social networks.

The “Stop Hate For Profit” is a campaign done on some social networks to fight against posts and communications containing hate speech and misinformation.

Remember this, the more you do it, the better you become at it. Keep going!

1. Its about the lax moderation that Facebook and Twitter have of misinformation and hate speech and they need to improve their rules.
2. I think is good have very strict rules about all hate speechs and misinformation content.
3. Facebook lossed value in the market, its value nosedivided by around 60 billions. His CEO anounced a series of new policies.
4. People that work in advertisements can be affected.
5. I know that with ads is the way that social plattaforms mantains, but I find that there is a lot of ads and the plattaforms now had gotten more greeder until the point where I now find ads pure spam.

Thank you for sharing your answers with us. Keep going with your writing practice.

Here is one sentence you can revise:

I know that with ads is the way that social plattaforms mantains, but I find that there is a lot of ads and the plattaforms now had gotten more greeder until the point where I now find ads pure spam.

I know that the way that social media websites maintain their business is with ads, but I find that there are a lot of ads and the websites have now gotten greedier to the point where all I could ever find now are ads that are purely spams.

Until your next entry!

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