Facebook Detailed the Results of a Civil Rights Audit Led by Laura Murphy

The NAACP kicked off a seven-day boycott of the social network

On the same day that the NAACP kicked off a seven-day boycott of Facebook and Instagram due to its data and privacy issues and their impact on African Americans, the social network released the results of the civil rights audit it has been conducting over the past few months.

The NAACP is leading #LogOutFacebook, starting Tuesday and running for seven days, and the organization is encouraging its partners, social media followers and supporters to follow suit.

The NAACP said in a press release announcing the boycott that it returned a donation that it recently received from Facebook, and president and CEO Derrick Johnson added, “Facebook’s engagement with partisan firms, its targeting of political opponents, the spread of misinformation and the utilization of Facebook for propaganda promoting disingenuous portrayals of the African American community is reprehensible.”

Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg introduced the audit results in a Newsroom post, writing, “In May, we accepted the call...

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