Starbucks joins Facebook advertising boycott

Two of the world’s biggest beverage companies have called time on their Facebook advertising budgets. Seattle coffee chain Starbucks became the latest advertiser to bring its social media marketing spend to a grinding halt yesterday. Earlier in the weekend, FTSE 100 firm Diageo, the drinks maker behind Smirnoff vodka and Guinness, also joined a flood of advertisers warning they would suspend social media spending amid controversies over hate speech. Some of the world’s biggest ad buy