- Lush announced it will shut down its Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat accounts.
- The cosmetics company said the harms of social media are going "largely ignored."
- Lush's UK operation announced in 2019 it would shut down some social media, but returned in 2020.
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Trendy cosmetics company Lush has announced it's quitting social media just as the holiday season kicks off.
In a press release issued last week Lush said it will be shutting down its Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat accounts on November 26 in all 48 countries where it operates.
The company said it's ditching its accounts in protest against safety issues on social media.
"In the same way that evidence against climate change was ignored and belittled for decades, concerns about the serious effects of social media are going largely ignored now," the company said in its press release.
"I've spent all my life avoiding putting harmful ingredients in my products. There is now overwhelming evidence we are being put at risk when using social media," Lush CEO, Mark Constantine, said in a...
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