After taking a stand for the Black Lives Matter movement, following the death of George Floyd, or even after their conflict with the British press, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry set off on a crusade against online hate speech. This Sunday, June 28, our colleagues from the American magazine People announced that the parents of little Archie are discreetly committed to the Stop Hate For Profit campaign, announced on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, which notably advocates a boycott of Facebook. Indeed, this mobilization calls on the CEOs of the whole world to temporarily withdraw their advertisements from the social network, criticized for the dissemination of any type of political advertisement going even to disinformation. The spouses agree to wear the label of their new foundation, Archewell. “One of the areas the Duke and Duchess of Sussex wanted to address is online hate speech, and we have worked with civil rights and racial justice groups on it,” said one source close to the couple from People.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry supported “a coalition of civil and racial justice groups like the NAACP, Color of Change, and the Anti-Defamation League”, all calling for “structural change in our online world . ” Obvious for the lovebirds who “throughout their lives were both driven by an innate need to fight against injustice”, according to the informant.
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