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Don't hate the media - change the media. We're engaging with advertisers to make media hate unprofitable. https://stopfundinghate.info/get-involved
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Stop Funding HateJan 25, 2025

When a marginalised community is demonised by the media, it doesn’t stop at words.

Politicians exploit the hatred created by those media, leading to increasingly hostile government policies stripping away people's basic rights and dignity

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-gb-news

Show threadStop Funding HateJan 24, 2025
The Daily Telegraph might not like it, but together #StopFundingHate supporters are pushing back against toxic media - and it's working: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-gb-news /4
Show threadStop Funding HateJan 24, 2025
Given the Telegraph's track record of toxic and problematic coverage, it seems reasonable to ask whether it's appropriate for them to be in receipt of UK government money… /3 https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jul/29/dailytelegraph-russia
Telegraph to continue publishing Russian propaganda supplement

Chinese wall exists between commercial and editorial divisions

The Guardian
Show threadStop Funding HateJan 24, 2025

As an independent, non-partisan, people-powered campaign, Stop Funding Hate has never sought or received any government funding.

By contrast, the Telegraph has reportedly received thousands from the Chinese and Russian governments, and taken significant amounts of UK government advertising money /2 https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jul/29/dailytelegraph-russia

Telegraph to continue publishing Russian propaganda supplement

Chinese wall exists between commercial and editorial divisions

The Guardian
Stop Funding HateJan 24, 2025
The Daily Telegraph say that they're planning to publish (yet) another article about Stop Funding Hate, and have asked us to comment. See below for our response... 1/ https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/mandrake-daily-telegraph-russia-beyond/
Telegraph puts Russian propaganda out of site

The Daily Telegraph has quietly removed all trace of its Russian propaganda supplement from its website

The New European
Stop Funding HateJan 23, 2025
While many respectable brands are steering clear of Twitter, we're seeing reports that Hellofresh, Samsung and Oracle have been spotted advertising on the platform *today*...
Stop Funding HateNov 16, 2023
IBM has suspended all advertising on Elon Musk-owned X after a report found its ads were placed next to content promoting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/ibm-suspends-ads-x-after-corporate-ads-appeared-next-pro-nazi-content-2023-11-16/
IBM suspends ads on X after corporate ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content

IBM <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/IBM.N" target="_blank">(IBM.N)</a> on Thursday said it had immediately suspended all advertising on Elon Musk-owned X after a report found its ads were placed next to content promoting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

Reuters
Stop Funding HateNov 16, 2023

A new low?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-antisemitic-comments-x-post-actual-truth/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=248753014

Elon Musk expresses support for antisemitic post on X, calling it "the actual truth"

Elon Musk, the world's richest person, said he agreed with an X post that claims that Jews are pushing "hatred against whites."

Stop Funding HateOct 17, 2023
Twitter pays thousands to account blasted for ‘mocking’ child’s suicide https://www.dailydot.com/news/twitter-monetizes-account-mocked-childs-death/
EXCLUSIVE: Twitter pays thousands to account blasted for 'mocking' child's suicide

Twitter is monetizing and displaying ads from major brands on an account that mocked a 14-year-old child's suicide.

The Daily Dot
Stop Funding HateOct 11, 2023
"In truth, advertisers are choosing to avoid GB News because it doesn’t fulfil the basic requirements for inclusion" https://the-media-leader.com/twitter-on-tv-the-real-reasons-why-advertisers-avoid-gb-news/
Twitter on TV: the real reasons why advertisers avoid GB News - The Media Leader

There isn't some conspiracy; advertisers want to sit beside the benign and predictable, not the combustible.

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