Author Archives: Andrea Buffa

Pro-democracy activists had a message for Facebook shareholders: “Wake the ZUCK Up!” We projected this message and others onto the side of the Facebook building in San Francisco on May 26, 2020, the night before the shareholders’ virtual meeting. We urged the shareholders to protect the public from lies, hate, and disinformation in political advertisements during the 2020 election season.

 Sponsored by Don’t Let Facebook ZUCK UP our Democracy, Media Alliance, Global Exchange, Indivisible SF-Peninsula CA 14, Raging Grannies Action League, Vigil for Democracy, and others. Projection by ResistanceSF.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer, has asked women around the world to “lean in” and do the things they’ve been afraid to do. Now women in her community are asking Sandberg to lean in herself—to get her company to change its dangerous policy of letting politicians blatantly lie in their Facebook ads.

Although Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes most of the heat when it comes to Facebook’s enabling the spread of lies, hate, and disinformation, Sandberg is just as responsible for policies that are endangering our very democracy.

 On International Women’s Day, Sunday, March 8, we tweeted photos of ourselves holding up signs with messages to Sandberg using the hashtag #LeanInAgainstLies. Political ads that lie about topics from women’s reproductive rights to climate change to other political candidates, and that try to suppress voter turnout and responses to the census are a risk to women’s lives.

This Presidents Day, we gathered outside Mark Zuckerberg’s house in San Francisco to let him know that we won’t be quiet in the face of his company undermining our democracy. We also created a human billboard over the freeway in Palo Alto, which is where Mark Zuckerberg also has a house.

Check out the media coverage:

CNET: ‘Wake up Zuck!’ Protesters gather outside of Facebook CEO’s San Francisco home 

SF Examiner: Activists tell Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to “Zuck off”

Mission Local and SFGATE: ‘Wake up, Zuck’: Protesters gather outside of Facebook founder’s home, demand regulation of political ads

SFIST: Protesters Swarm Zuckerberg’s SF Home to Condemn Facebook Political Ad Policy

KCBS Radio: Protesters Gather Outside Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg’s San Francisco Home