Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Orlando Bloom, Kerry Washington and Sacha Baron Cohen are amongst these additionally collaborating within the protest, which is slated to happen on Wednesday.
“I really like that I can join straight with you thru Instagram and Fb, however I am unable to sit by and keep silent whereas these platforms proceed to permit the spreading of hate, propaganda and misinformation,” Kardashian West wrote in a publish revealed to multiple social media accounts Tuesday.
She added, “Misinformation shared on social media has a severe impression on our elections and undermines our democracy. Please be part of me tomorrow once I will likely be ‘freezing’ my Instagram and FB account to inform Fb to #StopHateForProfit.”
The coalition of civil rights teams that organized July’s Facebook ad boycott introduced on Monday it was calling on corporations and celebrities to cease posting on Instagram for a day on Wednesday to protest Fb’s dealing with of hate on its platform and to name on the corporate to cease permitting politicians to lie in political advertisements.
The organizers, together with the ADL and NAACP, pointed to Fb’s failure to close down the web page of a Kenosha militia group as one cause to protest.
Requested about Kardashian West’s announcement, a Fb spokesperson declined to remark.
