> As Stop Funding Fake News activists told a news site later that June, they convinced 40 brands—including Adobe, Chelsea FC, Harry’s, Experion, eBay, Moonpig,

> As Stop Funding Fake News activists told a news site later that June, they convinced 40 brands—including Adobe, Chelsea FC, Harry’s, Experion, eBay, Moonpig, and Manchester United—to block some news outlets from running their ads, essentially starving the sites of revenue in a tactic called “demonetizing.” Stop Funding Fake News also announced that they were “educating” ad agencies, although this seems a euphemism for targeting people or messages that you don’t like. If no-one visits an outlet, ads displayed in it are worthless, and the outlet will lose funding by losing its audience. If this Center for Countering Digital Hate valued democracy, they would have gone after the audiences of these outlets. Instead they prefer to control what people see (i.e. which news outlets are viable) by lobbying the corporate class, regardless of the public's wishes.