Users urged to boycott Facebook and Instagram by groups demanding Mark Zuckerberg be removed as CEO
- Boycott organisers Kairos, a racial justice group, aims to have at least 200,000 users pledge to join ‘The Facebook Logout’, which starts on November 10
- The action is in protest at what the groups involved say is Facebook’s failure to address the destructive role it plays in American life
Would you log off from Facebook and Instagram for a day? How about three?
Social justice and civil rights groups are urging consumers to join an America-wide boycott starting on November 10 to protest at what they say is the social media giant’s failure to address the destructive role it plays in American life, from the deadly coronavirus to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol building in Washington.
The technology-focused racial justice group Kairos, which is organising the boycott, is calling it The Facebook Logout.
“People make this platform powerful, and without users, there is no Facebook,” Mariana Ruiz Firmat, executive director of Kairos, said.
The boycott’s website says: “We’re really over Facebook. So we’re logging out.” It encourages other users to take the pledge.
“From allowing white supremacists to plan a violent insurrection to ignoring disinformation for profit, Facebook is doing their worst,” it reads. “So we’re doing the thing that will get Facebook’s attention: logging out.”
