Five of the U.K.’s largest advertising firms face mounting criticism as they become entangled with the Conscious Advertising Network (CAN), a group aiming to sever the “economic link” between advertising and “harmful content”. The activist-led CAN was set up by Stop Funding Hate campaigners and the situation has been likened to the influence of Stonewall on organisations’ gender policies. The Telegraph has more.
The U.K.’s biggest advertising firms risk being “overrun by cancel culture” after signing up to a campaign linked to activists orchestrating boycotts of centre-Right media outlets, Conservative MPs have said.
Five of Britain’s biggest ad companies are members of the Conscious Advertising Network (CAN), an organisation that says it wants to break the “economic link” between advertising and “harmful content”.
However, CAN was set up and staffed by activists involved in the controversial Stop Funding Hate campaign, which has led boycotts against news outlets such as the Sun, the Daily Mail, the Daily Express and GB News.
Tory MPs have said the firms being drawn into politics has parallels with the row over the decision by Coutts to close Nigel Farage’s bank account because of his political views.
