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Obviously.

Perhaps those companies in this 'boycott' did themselves a favour by saving money to get by the mounted losses due to the pandemic. Pausing advertising subscriptions to save some money rather than trying to pressurise Facebook to do a u-turn.

This stunt changes absolutely nothing.



Considering this, was the tech and other media coverage of the "boycott" fair or accurate? Really looks like it was agenda-driven activism itself.




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