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PlayStation Boycotts Facebook as Part of #StopHateForProfit

Sony Interactive Entertainment has decided to temporarily suspend its PlayStation-related Facebook and Instagram activities. This is another company that has ed #StopHateForProfit in the fight against disinformation and hate speech.

Jacob Blazewicz

We will not see any PlayStation ads on Facebook until the end of the month.

If you've been following social media in recent weeks, you may have noticed the #StopHateForProfit hashtag. Today, the action was ed by Sony, which has decided to temporarily withdraw the PlayStation ads and content from Facebook and Instagram. As discovered by GamesIndustry.biz, this move expected to last until the end of July.

Sony is not the first video game giant to the #StopHateForProfit campaign. Earlier, a similar decision was taken by establishment of cooperation by both companies). The action itself is another effect of George Floyd's death, and more specifically the response to the protests it triggered in the US. It was then that the opposition to - as dissatisfied people want it - Facebook's (and Instagram's) tolerance towards hate speech and disinformation intensified. As ments for over 90% of the website's revenue (via Statista), Stop Hate for Profit campaign organizers decided to put pressure on companies using the platform for marketing purposes.

More and more companies the fight against the culture of hate in social media.

Surprisingly, the appeal was successful. To this day, apart from Sony and Microsoft, the action was ed by such companies as Adidas, Honda, Coca-Cola, Ford, Lego and hundreds of others, and some of them also withdrew from other social networking websites. Another issue is whether this is enough cause for concern for Mark Zuckerberg. In a recent conversation with employees, the founder of Facebook was supposed to declare that he wouldn't yield to pressure, although he agreed to meet with the organizers of the protest in the near future (via Daily Mail).

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Jacob Blazewicz

Author: Jacob Blazewicz

Graduated with a master's degree in Polish Studies from the University of Warsaw with a thesis dedicated to this very subject. Started his adventure with gamepressure.computercrack.com in 2015, writing in the Newsroom and later also in the film and technology sections (also contributed to the Encyclopedia). Interested in video games (and not only video games) for years. He began with platform games and, to this day, remains a big fan of them (including Metroidvania). Also shows interest in card games (including paper), fighting games, soulslikes, and basically everything about games as such. Marvels at pixelated characters from games dating back to the time of the Game Boy (if not older).

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