Mark Zuckerberg is stepping up his efforts to stop the bleeding from Facebook’s advertiser boycott.

The social network’s 36-year-old founder and chief govt will fulfill with the civil legal rights figures spearheading the drive to get advertisers to bounce ship from Facebook, the company said.

Zuckerberg’s planned conference arrives immediately after business executives Carolyn Everson, Facebook’s Vice President of international organization options and Neil Potts, the site’s community coverage director, held at least two conferences with advertisers Tuesday on the eve of the higher-profile 1-thirty day period boycott, according to Reuters.

Everson and Potts provided no new information on how Facebook would battle detest speech, having said that, and still left advertisers frustrated by continuously referring to latest push releases in which they touted that Fb catches 90 percent of all loathe speech on its system in advance of it is at any time noted.

Zuckerberg agreed to a meeting right after it was requested by the organizers of the “Stop Hate For Profit” boycott.

“They asked about owning Mark at the assembly, and we’ve due to the fact verified that Mark is in a position to sign up for,” the enterprise explained to CNN Business in a assertion. “We’re waiting around to hear again and look ahead to the prospect to go on the dialogue.”

A lot more than 400 models pulled their ads from Facebook’s system starting Wednesday, which include Starbucks, Microsoft and Unilever, in assist of advocates’ needs for the business to far more aggressively deal with dislike speech and misinformation.

On Tuesday, Facebook’s Uk boss Steve Hatch defended the company’s attempts in combating dislike speech, emphasizing that “there is no profit to be experienced in information that is hateful” and arguing that posts on the internet site just mirror the views of the people who use the platform.

In truth, according to Hatch, the articles on Fb simply demonstrates the views of the individuals who use the platform.

“There are 3 billion individuals close to the world that use our platforms,” Hatch mentioned. “Of class, there is a small minority of individuals that are hateful and which is due to the fact as much as we do our really very best — and there is generally much more that we can do and we will do — but when there is detest in the earth, there will also be dislike on Fb.”

Facebook this week agreed to a model safety audit, and explained it will make its “partner and material monetization policies” as well as “brand protection controls” obtainable to the Media Rating Council.

A consultant for Fb did not react to The Post’s ask for for comment.

Shares of Fb concluded up 4.6 p.c Wednesday, at $237.55.