Title: Conservatives Are Boycotting Netflix After It Named Obama Official Susan Rice to Board of Directors
Headings: Conservatives Are Boycotting Netflix After It Named Obama Official Susan Rice to Board of Directors
Conservatives Are Boycotting Netflix After It Named Obama Official Susan Rice to Board of Directors
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Content: Obama officials later corrected that accounting, saying the incident was a premeditated terror attack, not a protest that devolved into violence. Rice has since been target of opprobrium, particularly within conservative circles. That criticism was renewed in 2017. Rice was behind a request to " unmask " or reveal the redacted names of U.S. citizens who American spy agencies had intercepted speaking with foreign sources. She was specifically concerned with a December 2016 meeting between the United Arab Emirates crown prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan in New York following the election. CNN and The Washington Post later reported that unmasking is a relatively common request and that the meeting in question involved President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn—who has since been indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller for lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian operatives—the former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner. The Netflix boycott joins a growing list of things some conservatives have abandoned. "I've boycotted NFL, Starbucks and CNN it won't be hard to add Netflix. # BoycottNetflix," FriendlyJan tweeted. In November 2017, the coffee maker Keurig pulled its advertising from Fox News' Hannity after the host appeared to then Alabama Senate hopeful Roy Moore, who was facing pedophilia accusations.