Bhaskar Chakravorti in Fortune – “raceAhead: Unilever Threatens to Pull Ads from Facebook”

raceAhead: Unilever Threatens to Pull Ads from Facebook
by Ellen McGirt

How Facebook and others will respond will be instructive. Bhaskar Chakravorti, Senior Associate Dean, International Business & Finance, Tufts University, and digital trust expert says the issue is basic business.

“Our research finds that companies working toward corporate social responsibility will only succeed if their efforts align with their core business models,” he says. An advertising model, which is how Facebook makes most of its revenue, encourages quantity, including harmful or untrustworthy content, over material that’s been vetted and verified. And when it turns out that bogus stories, hate speech, and screaming memes are more engaging, judgments get even cloudier.

Read the full article featuring quotes from Dean Chakravorit in Fortune