Microsoft Pauses Spending on Facebook, Instagram

Microsoft suspended its advertising on Facebook and Instagram in the U.S. in May and recently expanded that to a global pause, according to an internal chat transcript seen by Axios. From a report: Unlike the many advertisers who recently joined a Facebook boycott,, Microsoft is concerned about where its ads are shown, not Facebook's policies. But the move still means yet another big advertiser is not spending on Facebook right now. "Based on concerns we had back in May we suspended all media spending on Facebook/Instagram in the US and we've subsequently suspended all spending on Facebook/Instagram worldwide," Microsoft CMO Chris Capossela said in an internal Yammer post, responding to an employee's question. The transcript did not specifically say what content Microsoft objected to its ads appearing next to, but as examples of "inappropriate content" it cited examples of "hate speech, pornography, terrorist content, etc."

Please do, GTFO...enjoy Parler

[Somervillain]

All of them not controlled by WallSt. Folks, leave the WallSt PLANTATION !

You and I agree 100%. Please get off all respectable social media and go to Parler or whatever alternative you feel suits your needs better. We don't want you on the mainstream platforms if you retweet videos where people chant "white power" or if you think there were fine people on both sides of Charlottesville.

This is not a liberal/conservative issue. A bunch of people calling themselves conservatives are acting like assholes and the rest of us are sick of them. In my eyes, this is a market issue.

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[Presence Eternal]

It is my opinion that putting bigots into their own special echo chambers is a recipe for extremist violence.

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[DNS-and-BIND]

Are people still repeating the "fine people" hoax? This is debunked by showing the full transcript or the full video in which he clearly, and without prompting, says the exact opposite, that the neo-Nazis and white nationalists should be condemned totally. The press created the hoax by consistently and intentionally omitting the second half of President Trump's comments about Charlottesville. If you only see or hear the first half of what the president said, it looks exactly like the president is calling n

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[Mostly a lurker]

Are people still repeating the "fine people" hoax? This is debunked by showing the full transcript or the full video in which he clearly, and without prompting, says the exact opposite, that the neo-Nazis and white nationalists should be condemned totally. The press created the hoax by consistently and intentionally omitting the second half of President Trump's comments about Charlottesville. If you only see or hear the first half of what the president said, it looks exactly like the president is calling ne

Re: Please do, GTFO...enjoy Parler

[liefer]

Understandable and respectable position. I just wish Facebook et al would be more consistent instead of so obviously bring driven by ideology. When I go to see family photos I don't want to see people calling for the killing of black people and I don't want to see people calling for the killing of white people. Strangely though, only one of them is removed

Re:Please do, GTFO...enjoy Parler

[slasher999]

There is no respectable social media. Period. That last holdout may have been LinkedIn, but even that is full of trash now. Social media is a cesspool that provides zero actual value. This is how we end it - advertisers refusing to participate.

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[Z00L00K]

I think that the time has come for a new take on ads on the net.
The big companies like Google and Facebook may see their income decline.

no big deal

[phantomfive]

Facebook will respond by giving advertisers tools to make sure their precious Lexus car doesn't appear next to a post by an ugly old politician, and thereby become tainted as a result.

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[phantomfive]

Was Corn Pop really a bad dude

Seems like he and Biden were able to come to an agreement in the end, so he must have been alright.

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[hey!]

Not so bad, probably not so misunderstood either. Of course that was back at time when organized crime didn't recruit kids to sell drugs. "Gangs" were neighborhood cliques who all knew each other, territories were street corners, fights were mostly words with an occasional fist fight.

Back in the 50s or 60s, everybody who lived in a city neighborhood knew kids like Corn Pop. The kind of kid who's a local celebrity within a block of his house or his favorite hangout, and gets into trouble because he's en

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[drinkypoo]

"that was back at time when organized crime didn't recruit kids to sell drugs."

What? When was that?

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[hey!]

Well of course it always *happened*, but when I was a kid the mob's big money maker was numbers. That changed in the 70s.

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[rtb61]

Internet advertising does have a real problem with exactly that. It is not the content the ads are slapped on that makes an ad worthless, it is the other ads it is associated with. So advertise a high end luxury reliable car next to an an for penile enhancements, associates the two products together. Back in yea ole advertising days, ads spots cost a lot and you could only afford those spots with a major spend, now cheap internet ads means high end products get advertised alongside the worst crap and even s

Too bad it's not permanent

[RazorSharp]

It would be great if all these companies just stopped spending money on Facebook forever.

Even if you disagree with the political reasons these companies have for doing this, we should all be able to agree that bad things happening to Facebook is a good thing.

If you sympathize with the political reasons for this boycott, it's all the sweeter to consider that Zuckerberg completely screwed himself by trying to pander to the far right. All of his bullshit pandering to liberal causes during the Obama era has been exposed as just that: bullshit. He has demonstrated that he only cares about what benefits Facebook. Zuckerberg and his company are the enemy to all people, regardless of political persuasion, and his chameleon-like views are transparently self-serving.

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[nightflameauto]

"pander to the far right" [Libtard --> English translation] "not censor anybody and every who says anything a Democrat doesn't like"

Examples of censored right wing racist hate we simply can't allow on social media, according to the DNC:

"I don't think my tax dollars should be going to self-identified Marxist agitators." "Illegal immigration is a crime." "Did you notice that Russia sure gifted a lot of money to the Clintons?" "I'm proud of my country and think it's overall doing a good job."

That last one isn't so much an opinion as a delusion. I can't imagine being able to look at the state of America right now, and saying it's overall doing a good job with a straight face. That seems extremely disconnected from reality.

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[dunkelfalke]

I don't care about the political reasons - that particular shitshow is on the other side of the pond. But watching facebook burn is definitely a pleasant experience.

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[onyxruby]

Get real, the far right simply means that you are right of progressive anymore. Liberal but disagree with the woke progressive platform on a single issue? You have failed your purity test. Off with your metaphorical head, just like JK Rowling. It doesn't matter how left wing you are, for how many years and it certainly doesn't matter what you have done.

I've seen far too many people being accused of hate speech for stating simple factual statements. The truth shouldn't have a political bias, it simply is. Woke purity tests keep becoming more and more intolerant and that's what's being demanded. This idea that Facebook is tolerating death threats from whites to blacks or men to women is absurd.

This is all about censorship and forcing facebook to shutdown all conservative voices before the election. Don't worry, they'll put a token free speech space for conservatives. They need some pretense of neutrality after all - if Trump isn't re-elected.

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[scilover]

I agree, the cancel culture is getting out of hand. In my opinion, I feel like most companies are just following the trend in fear of backlash from people on social media.

Oh, thank God

[jfdavis668]

I was really getting tired of their stupid ads. Glad they are gone.

Time for a new publicity platform

[Real Melancon]

As much as I hate publicity and never click on banners, I think itâ(TM)s time for a new platform, where taxes would actually be paid in corresponding countries, where the banner is clicked. I know with proxies and such it could be easy to trick, but governments that actually provide services to population are asking fot it.

What do they want?

[sabbede]

If it's just that they don't want their ads to be visible on the same page as something someone might find objectionable, aren't they really saying that Facebook should ban all but the most banal of activity? As in, "Facebook: For the Smallest of Smalltalk Only!"