It’s Not Just Facebook: Companies Are Pausing All Social Media Advertising

What started as an organized campaign to have advertisers boycott Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) looks to be organically evolving into numerous companies declaring that they're "pausing" their advertising on all social media platforms.

Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) became the latest national brand to say social media needed to do more to stop the spread of hate speech, and it was having internal discussions about how to proceed. But the coffee chain said it was not joining the "Stop Hate for Profit" campaign, the protest by the progressive Color of Change organization promoting the ad boycott.

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