Why the Sierra Club is boycotting Facebook

Portland Business Journal:

A coalition of nine activist organizations is pulling paid advertising campaigns from Facebook for at least the next two weeks, to protest Mark Zuckerberg’s new lobbying group, FWD.us.

The coalition is unhappy about a pair of ads that FWD.us produced supporting two Republican senators up for reelection.

As the Silicon Valley Business Journal reports, the group includes the Sierra Club, MoveOn.org, the League of Conservation Voters, Democracy for America, CREDO, Daily Kos, 350.org, Presente and…

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