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Facebook Advertisers Boycott, Demand Changes

Don Heider, executive director, quoted on Voice of America.

As part of a campaign called Stop Hate for Profit, more than 600 companies say they won’t advertise on Facebook and its sister firm, Instagram, in July, generating a lot of discussion around how to manage Facebook.

Hire ethicists to help with decision-making and give them power in the organization, says Don Heider, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. 

“I don't think there's any one core set of values,” he said. “I wish there was. And I wish it was some sense of trying to help the common good or trying to protect human rights or something that really helped them be a guiding principle for the company.” 

Don Heider, executive director, quoted on Voice of America.

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