Patagonia CEO Slams Facebook, Calls on Other Businesses to Boycott Advertisements To Stop Misinformation - NewsBreak

Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert took the the company's Twitter account this afternoon to encourage businesses to join the outdoor retailer in removing advertisements from Facebook as well as its subsidiary Instagram. The viral thread, which has over 57,000 likes collectively, explains Patagonia's decision to stop all paid advertising on Facebook platforms in June 2020. According to the thread, Patagonia made this decision to protest the spread of "hate speech and misinformation about climate change and our democracy" on the platform. The tweet came shortly after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company's new name, Meta, and amid a reckoning for the platform....