Cybersecurity
NAACP Seeks Week-Long Facebook Boycott Over Racial Targeting
- Civil rights organization to return donation to social network
- Russian hackers heavily targeted black users, report finds
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, one of the oldest U.S. civil-rights organizations, has returned a donation it received from Facebook Inc. and is encouraging a week-long boycott starting Tuesday, Dec. 18.
The NAACP urged its members and supporters to log out of Facebook and sister platform Instagram in response to a report released Monday which found that Russian hacking of the 2016 election heavily targeted African-Americans.