{"id":1461,"date":"2021-11-25T07:28:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T06:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/25\/lush-quits-facebook-instagram-tiktok-and-snapchat-over-safety-concerns-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2021-11-25T07:28:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T06:28:54","slug":"lush-quits-facebook-instagram-tiktok-and-snapchat-over-safety-concerns-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/25\/lush-quits-facebook-instagram-tiktok-and-snapchat-over-safety-concerns-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Lush quits Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat over safety concerns &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Beauty retailer says it has had enough of social media after allegations of whistleblower Frances Haugen<br \/>Last modified on Tue 23 Nov 2021 19.33 GMT<br \/>Lush has announced it is closing its accounts on Facebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/instagram\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Instagram<\/a>, Snapchat and TikTok until the social media sites do a better job of protecting users from harmful content.<br \/>The campaigning beauty retailer said it had \u201chad enough\u201d after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/24\/frances-haugen-i-never-wanted-to-be-a-whistleblower-but-lives-were-in-danger\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">allegations of the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen<\/a>, who claims the company puts profit ahead of the public good.<\/p>\n<p>The Lush chief digital officer, Jack Constantine, said the company would not ask customers to \u201cmeet us down a dark and dangerous alleyway\u201d, adding that some social media platforms were \u201cbeginning to feel like places no one should be encouraged to go \u2026 Something has to change.\u201d<br \/>Constantine said the company spent a lot of time inventing products to help people to unwind and look after themselves. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/social-media\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Social media<\/a> platforms had become the antithesis of this, he argued, with algorithms designed to \u201ckeep people scrolling and stop them from switching off and relaxing\u201d.<br \/>The Poole-based retailer, best known for its fragrant soaps and bath bombs, has run campaigns over the years linked to social causes, with subjects ranging from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2018\/jun\/01\/cosmetics-retailer-lush-criticised-by-police-over-spycops-ad-campaign\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">targeting of activists by undercover police officers<\/a> to preventing the extinction of hen harriers.<br \/>\u201cWhen it gets to a point that our customers\u2019 wellbeing is being put in jeopardy because of the channels on which we are trying to connect with them, then something doesn\u2019t sit right for us,\u201d Constantine said.<br \/>As anyone who has tried knows, giving up social media is not easy. This holds true for Lush too, as this is the second time the company, which has more than 400 stores in 48 countries, has said it is quitting the sites, having previously announced the step in 2019. The company blamed \u201cFomo\u201d (fear of missing out) for the relapse.<br \/>But by quitting social media Lush is also switching off a channel for criticism of the company, something for which it may be grateful. It faced a social media backlash last year after its charity pot made a \u00a33,000 donation to Woman\u2019s Place UK, a group that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/feb\/12\/labour-leadership-row-over-support-for-trans-rights-charter\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">faced heavy criticism <\/a>for its stance on trans issues, with critics accusing it of seeking to limit trans people\u2019s rights. The retailer ended up issuing a grovelling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lushcosmetics\/photos\/basw.AboUPe_ssO2Dup1exvQK-j9Ek0ZwTy4wuqNCeFqFv1sfj2rmH6n2VFr_f15Sowrx_Zc2SEaV9enRpWEy5zV2_reRZQPOZAFPKnLdRXHxFhVM1EE3lD5WllEK5oMuZ6v4m6Or5eZKn7VBCZr_JKUzj-Mr\/10157057680484058\/?opaqueCursor=Abr2E8Y_6m4F9_7ZP02NTQIqXlxnJoNJeY4onId2jWGfwORh8ZtpqyJbeLQWHtupobMQ9ndnJgXehbJNHqOJwbGQBITVfotJbDRyftFQL16C4qX5n3WHbiypNRRSYBBgK09NiFPxyZMx92fI2BbZ-6jrgACt1AZTSarGjotbOKX-Gi3RI64Luwsjmv-zl9-BMHyAaWCui3RXE0bfw4L7SLYzVlI2QZdZH-DDusdCOhWZq-J196iVr37V8bXEM_F4uWAfJC-LbyUsX23aEl0eGXIhwgI9ZZZGgzpYvsoBGboUpO0ErO3AvqHk6Eik2xwoVl4MXVCblY6ckLvS3Vc-BTwJ2BQbg-gfm4-F2kUgBGjyR7b07kElt3bCFz1qzIEuOUoUT_pVRcRDvaof-OWaD2Q0zBlcR_Vv6AQHKFrSilS2eThIFNGFWs6OEnLa6IMSqY5NQ_rgKa7KqGXzeaKKyzSXkjhYXhezRNvGlgUh4IbxFT9pwrPTHGDMlhWSzjRAAaool5hk-tFeWhCTfbcdJZydyycIEldOyTxhwLaS45KjBAEiHODyRUCxVIoCCSUy4vWKrm-NLcqxmM2TTrs6kHoUpIBHiYVjRlqsU7CMPkh9ULWCDjGm3NBT88PHhMnsIgOD-J-cDMNcHhHBl5T54UaedbyIZwvl_atgm39JmTWZXyYgdjjxLUvwX9IIr5H0g_E\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">apology.<\/a><br \/>In 2020, Lush, which prides itself on its handmade products and <a href=\"https:\/\/au.lush.com\/tag\/our-values\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">ethical supply chain<\/a>, also came under fire for poor working conditions in the chain\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/aug\/21\/ethical-cosmetics-company-lush-accused-of-poor-working-conditions-for-australian-staff\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Australian factory<\/a> and poor systems which meant it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/nov\/17\/cosmetics-company-lush-admits-to-underpaying-australian-workers-by-44m\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">underpaid workers<\/a> for nearly a decade. <br \/>Lush said it hoped the platforms would introduce strong best practice guidelines, and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/25\/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-calls-for-urgent-external-regulation\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">new laws <\/a>would be passed to protect users.<br \/>Until then, the company said it was trying to \u201cshield our customers from the harm and manipulation they may experience while trying to connect with us on social media\u201d. All Lush\u2019s brand, retail and people accounts around the world will close from Friday.<br \/>The retailer said it planned to find better channels of communication elsewhere, as well as using tried and tested routes. For the time being it will continue to have a presence on Twitter and YouTube.<br \/>Haugen, a former product manager at Facebook, leaked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/04\/facebook-tearing-our-societies-apart-key-excerpts-from-a-whistleblower-frances-haugen\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">tens of thousands of internal company documents<\/a> after becoming frustrated that it was not publicly acknowledging the harm its platforms could cause.<br \/>The documents have triggered a maelstrom of allegations, including that Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/14\/facebook-aware-instagram-harmful-effect-teenage-girls-leak-reveals\" title data-link-name=\"in body link\">knew its products were damaging teenagers\u2019 mental health<\/a>, were fomenting ethnic violence in countries such as Ethiopia and were failing to curb misinformation before the 6 January Washington riots.<br \/>In a statement responding to Haugen\u2019s accusations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/facebook\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Facebook<\/a> said it continued to make significant improvements to tackle the spread of misinformation and harmful content, adding: \u201cTo suggest we encourage bad content and do nothing is just not true.\u201d<br \/>In relation to the story about Facebook being harmful to teenagers\u2019 mental health, the social media site pointed to <a href=\"https:\/\/about.instagram.com\/blog\/announcements\/using-research-to-improve-your-experience\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">a blogpost by its head of public policy, Karina Newton<\/a>, that said the report had \u201cfocused on a limited set of findings and casts them in a negative light\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/nov\/23\/lush-quits-facebook-instagram-tiktok-snapchat-social-media\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beauty retailer says it has had enough of social media after allegations of whistleblower Frances HaugenLast modified on Tue 23 Nov 2021 19.33 GMTLush has announced it is closing its accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok until the social media sites do a better job of protecting users from harmful content.The campaigning beauty retailer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}