Advertising’s not about democracy, it’s about eyeballs

Joanna Booth
5 min readJun 17, 2021

Even before the “anti-woke” GB News channel began its first broadcast, the campaign group Stop Funding Hate had started a boycott. As the first shows began to air, the outrage started to grow on Twitter and the calls for boycotting advertisers increased. Viewers could now identify and contact those corporations who were giving their money to the news channel.

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