US civil rights teams will organise an advertiser boycott towards Alphabet's YouTube if it doesn't take away President Donald Trump's channel, the teams advised Reuters.
Jim Steyer, one of many organisers of the "Stop Hate for Profit" marketing campaign which led over 1,000 advertisers to boycott Facebook in July, mentioned the teams are demanding YouTube take down Trump's verified YouTube channel, which has 2.76 million subscribers.
YouTube is the final main tech firm that has not banned Trump from posting on its platforms. Facebook, Twitter, and Snap have all blocked Trump after supporters of the president stormed the US Capitol final week, main to 5 deaths.
Trump's YouTube channel offers him the chance to proceed spreading false info that the US election was stolen, Steyer mentioned.
On Tuesday, Trump's YouTube channel posted eight new movies, together with one wherein Trump advised reporters "I think Big Tech has made a terrible mistake" by blocking him.
Neither YouTube nor the White House instantly responded to requests for remark.
YouTube has advised the teams it's contemplating the calls for however has but to behave, Steyer mentioned.
"If YouTube does not agree with us and join the other platforms in banning Trump, we're going to go to the advertisers," he added.
"We join in with our coalition partners and ask that YouTube act decisively to help stop the spread of hate by shutting Trump's account down,” said the NAACP in a statement to Reuters.
The NAACP, Anti-Defamation League, and Color of Change along with Steyer's group Common Sense Media, are among the organisers of the Stop Hate for Profit campaign, which had recruited major advertisers including Verizon and Unilever to pull their ads from Facebook over hate speech/concerns.
Despite the widespread boycott, Facebook posted record revenue during its third quarter but agreed to create a role for a head of civil rights.
© Thomson Reuters 2020
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