Angry advertisers have hit out after their ads were shown on Facebook group pages featuring rape and violence.
Vodafone, Dove Cosmetics, the RSPB and audiobook site Audible are among those who have complained to Facebook that they are unhappy where their adverts are being featured.
Advertisers were alerted by Laura Bates, the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, which aims to highlight “everyday experiences of sexism to prove how bad the problem is.”
Pages which have caused complaints from advertisers include:
- “Raping!”,
- “Drop kicking sluts in the teeth” and
- “This is why Indian girls are raped.”
Shelter said on Twitter that it would be “contacting Facebook to see if there’s anything we can do to stop this from happening.”
The RSPB said: “Unless they can assure us that they are working out a way to guarantee this kind of thing doesn’t continue, we will be forced to consider our advertising options.”
Dove said it was “shocked to see our advert” on “Drop kicking sluts in the teeth”, and added the company has “spoken to Facebook who have removed this page completely”.
Vodafone contacted Facebook after its commercial content was featured on a page called “This is why Indian girls are raped”, alongside pictures of scantily clad Indian women.
Facebook said it acted quickly to remove offensive material deemed to be “genuinely or directly harmful”.
Via: The Telegraph