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Trump Targeting Black Voters in 2016 Shows Facebook’s Microtargeting Is a Danger to Democracy, experts say

New data shows the Trump campaign strategically launched ads on Facebook to deter Black people from voting through a process known as microtargeting. Microtargeting is broadly not regulated in the US. While Facebook claims to have addressed problems in how its platform was used in 2016, experts disagree. Dr. Jennifer Cobbe says, “Facebook talks a lot about bad actors misusing its platform, but the truth is that the biggest bad actor on Facebook is Facebook.” And Color Of Change President Rashad Robinson says Facebook’s actions are “too little too late for the millions of Black voters who were disenfranchised four years ago.”

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These 5 Leaders Are Transforming How America Works, Plays, and Invests

Rashad Robinson, and Color Of Change’s work to hold big tech companies accountable, is featured in Business Insider’s list of five leaders transforming America. COC’s membership has swelled from 1.7M people to 7M in 2020. Rashad is quoted, “When I have sat across the table with Mark Zuckerberg, and he has tried to defend the Daily Caller being a fact-checking news site, and Breitbart being a fact-checking site when they have advanced white nationalists, I have to say to him, ‘Then it’s hard to trust that you actually care about civil rights.”

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Trump’s Refusal to Condemn White Supremacy Fits Pattern of Extremist Rhetoric

Rashad Robinson is quoted in this article on Trump’s dangerous longstanding pattern of egging on white nationalists. Rashad says Trump “made his call to violence crystal clear…. Just minutes after he told a terrorist organization to ‘stand by’, they started suiting up and preparing to attack America. Trump needs white nationalists at the ready because he needs violence to win the election. He wants white nationalists to invade polling places across the country and prevent voters from voting, to invade our streets and attack people who are protesting, and to prevent ballots from being counted. He made clear that his campaign is not about winning votes, it’s about holding on to power – no matter the cost.”

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Facebook Implements New Rules to Prevent Voter Intimidation

Less than a month before the election, Facebook has announced posts with militarized language like “army” or “battle” will be removed under a new policy to try to prevent voter intimidation. The policy comes in response to a controversial Trump ad in which he calls for an “army” of supporters to show up at polling stations. A watchdog group of activists and academics – which Color Of Change is a member of – says Facebook has not nearly gone far enough in allowing “the flow of poison into the population.” COC’s President Rashad Robinson is quoted, saying calls like Trump’s are “a threat to our ability to express our will for a better future.”

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Hedge Funds Fall Flat When It Comes to Diversifying Their Ranks

Color Of Change President Rashad Robinson was interviewed for this article on how white- and male-dominated the hedge fund industry is. In 2020, not 1 of the nation’s 30 largest hedge funds is run by a woman or a person of color. Less than 20% are employees are women, and most women- or Black-owned firms have less than US$500 million in assets. Robinsons says that for the industry to make real progress firms should consider building financial incentives into hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. “When money comes into play, people get creative.”

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Facebook Finally Slowed Down—When We Needed It to Move Fast

Three years after the idea was first proposed, Facebook finally created an oversight board–but the move comes too late to stop the spread of propaganda or misinformation in the 2020 elections. The activists and organizations like Color Of Change that make up what’s privately referred to as “Facebook’s Real Oversight Board” say this is too little, too late, no more than “a corporate whitewashing exercise” without the power to influence policy. And while Facebook moves fast when business deals are on the line, the oversight board will probably not hear its first case ’til the end of 2020 at best.

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Critics Call for Facebook to Protect Democracy with 3 Urgent Steps

Color Of Change President Rashad Robinson is part of a 24-person board calling for Facebook to take three immediate steps in order to protect US democracy. First, it is calling for a ban on all paid advertising mentioning presidential election results as ballots are being counted, adding this could prevent violence from breaking out if the results are contested. Second, the board demanded “strict oversight” of all posts that mention the presidential election results in this uncertain period. Last, the board said Facebook should “enforce its own policies” to remove content that incites violence.

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Minority Entrepreneurs at Tipping Point as Black-Owned Banks Dwindle in US

Black and Brown business owners have born the brunt of businesses closing during COVID-19: from February to April, there was a 41% decline in Black-owned businesses, a 32% drop in Latinx business owners, and only a 17% decline in white-owned businesses. Lack of access to capital–fueled by racist lending practices where minority businesses receive higher interest rates and get turned down for more loans–is the main reason Black businesses go under. A recent report by Color Of Change and UnidosUS shows that among those who applied for Paycheck Protection Program support, only 12% of Black entrepreneurs received the assistance they had requested. 41% received none.

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Don’t Quit Facebook. Change Laws.

The New York Times covers Color of Change’s celebrity social media freeze and ad boycott levied at Facebook. In July companies pulled $7B in advertising as part of #StopHateForProfit. Vice President Arisha Hatch is quoted. “Our goal at Color Of Change is definitely longer term systemic change and specifically legislative change. That takes time and boycotts give people something small, easy and strategic that they can do to actually win real world change for Black people.” The Times says the boycott campaign was “wildly successful” in educating people and shaming the company to do more to stop the spread of hate and misinformation on its platform.

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VIDEO INTERVIEW: Breonna Taylor Case Sparks More Protests After Grand Jury Decision

Breonna Taylor’s mother has spoken out after Kentucky’s Attorney General announced that none of the officers involved in Taylor’s killing would be charged with her death. Scott Roberts, Color Of Change’s Senior Director of Criminal Justice Campaigns joined CBS News to discuss how the justice system has failed, and why protesters continue to call for the defunding of police. Watch the full interview by clicking the logo above.

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VIDEO: Color of Change Creates PSA for ‘Karens’

Color Of Change’s new PSA takes a humorous approach to the fact that too many white people have proven they can’t be trusted to use 911 responsibly – and it’s costing Black people their safety and sometimes their lives. After a summer of watching police kill unarmed Black people, and white people call the police on Black people who aren’t doing anything wrong, we decided to craft a response. Watch this video where we release a new emergency number for all the ‘Karens’ out there. The original video appeared on NowThis news.

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