Sierra Club Boycotts Facebook
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A Times article about the Sierra Club ceasing its ad spending on Facebook because of the involvement of a Facebook founder in a pro-immigration-reform group that aired a commercial about the Keystone XL pipeline includes the following passage:

Cathy Duvall, director of strategic partnerships at the Sierra Club, said her group was especially disappointed to see the technology industry adopt a strategy that was more typical of old-fashioned, brass-knuckled Washington lobbying.

"When the ads came out they were politics as usual and divisive and pitting one issue against another," Ms. Duvall said. "We were really surprised that Silicon Valley would be moving into the political space by doing the worst of business-as-usual politics."

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Facebook, Losing or Making Money
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"Facebook Reports a Loss" — headline, New York Times, July 26, 2012, reporting on a Facebook earnings report that for the second quarter of 2012 the company had lost $157 million according to generally accepted accounting principles.

"the company is making money" — claim in New York Times article "Facebook's Slide Continues," August 1, 2012, by the same Times reporter who wrote the July 26 piece.

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Sierra Club Boycotts Facebook
smartertimes.com

A Times article about the Sierra Club ceasing its ad spending on Facebook because of the involvement of a Facebook founder in a pro-immigration-reform group that aired a commercial about the Keystone XL pipeline includes the following passage:

Cathy Duvall, director of strategic partnerships at the Sierra Club, said her group was especially disappointed to see the technology industry adopt a strategy that was more typical of old-fashioned, brass-knuckled Washington lobbying.

"When the ads came out they were politics as usual and divisive and pitting one issue against another," Ms. Duvall said. "We were really surprised that Silicon Valley would be moving into the political space by doing the worst of business-as-usual politics."

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Facebook, Losing or Making Money
futureofcapitalism.com

"Facebook Reports a Loss" — headline, New York Times, July 26, 2012, reporting on a Facebook earnings report that for the second quarter of 2012 the company had lost $157 million according to generally accepted accounting principles.

"the company is making money" — claim in New York Times article "Facebook's Slide Continues," August 1, 2012, by the same Times reporter who wrote the July 26 piece.

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