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15 Nov 2016

Author:
Ben Kentish, Independent (UK)

UK: Lego ends advertising with Daily Mail after calls for companies to "Stop Funding Hate"

Lego will stop advertising its products in the Daily Mail, following a public campaign calling on big companies to drop adverts from newspapers accused of promoting “hatred, discrimination and demonisation”, the company has announced. The Danish firm, which has previously run free giveaways in the newspaper, responded to social media campaigners Stop Funding Hate by tweeting: “We have finished the agreement with the Daily Mail and are not planning any future promotional activity with the newspaper. "The Co-Op Group has said it is ‘reviewing’ its advertising but other companies have, until now, refused to withdraw their adverts. John Lewis, another key target of the campaign said: “We fully appreciate the strength of feeling on this issue but we never make an editorial judgement on a particular newspaper. Waitrose and Marks & Spencer are also being urged to drop their Christmas advertising in certain tabloids.