On Wednesday morning, Sacha Baron Cohen posted a message on his Instagram informing his 600,000 followers that he’d be “freezing” his account for the next 24 hours.
Mark Ruffalo had a similar missive for his 18.7 million followers. The actors, alongside more than a dozen other celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio and Dwyane Wade, are part of the Stop Hate for Profit campaign organized by a coalition of civil rights groups that want Instagram owner Facebook to curb racism, misinformation and hate speech on its platforms.
Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, which helped organize the campaign alongside coalition members including Color of Change, Common Sense and NAACP, calls the.
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