Civil rights groups have called on vast advertisers to postponement their Facebook promotion for a month of July, to criticism what they contend is a company’s inability to scrupulously rein in extremist and aroused calm and misinformation.
Facebook shares
FB,
+2.91%
are down 2.4% over a past month, though are adult scarcely 11% year to date, compared to a SP 500’s
SPX,
+1.54%
4% decrease this year.
Of a scarcely 300 companies worldwide that have assimilated a ad boycott, some of a many distinguished include:
Adidas AG
ADDDF,
+2.06%
*
Arc’teryx
Ben Jerry’s Homemade Holdings Inc.
Beam Suntory Inc.
Birchbox
Blue Bottle Coffee Inc.
Blue Shield of California
Chobani
Clorox*
CLX,
+0.82%
Coca-Cola Co.
KO,
+0.72%
Dashlane
Denny’s Corp.
DENN,
-1.27%
Diageo plc
DGEAF,
+2.68%
Eddie Bauer LLC
Eileen Fisher
Ford Motor Co.
F,
+1.16%
Hershey Co.
HSY,
+1.57%
Honda Motor Co.
HMC,
-0.07%
HP Inc.
HPQ,
+1.75%
JanSport
Levi Strauss Co.
LEVI,
+1.20%
Magnolia Pictures
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
+2.55%
Patagonia Inc.
Patreon
Pfizer Inc.
PFE,
+0.18%
Puma SE
PMMAF,
+2.02%
The North Face
Recreational Equipment Inc.
SAP
SAP,
+1.13%
Starbucks Corp.
SBUX,
+0.15%
Upwork Inc.
UPWK,
+1.40%
Unilever
UL,
-0.70%
Vans
Verizon Communications Inc.
VZ,
+0.80%
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.
VRTX,
+1.79%
* Pulled ads, though have not rigourously assimilated a campaign.
