Unilever pulls US ads from social media platforms

Published June 26, 2020 7:25pm ET



A major retail brand is pulling advertisements from top social media platforms Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram until “at least” the end of 2020.

Unilever, which makes Hellmann’s mayonnaise and Dove soap, followed the lead of other companies such as Verizon that have pulled back advertisements on social media hubs until the platforms, especially Facebook, retool their hate speech moderation.

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