foment

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• Brand safety isn’t a new topic with 2021, but it’s taking on more importance as companies work to avoid any potential fallout from being seen parallel to extremist political movements that have fomented on social media platforms like Facebook.

• He complained of election fraud before anyone had even voted, and he fomented that lie afterward in his defeat.

• We must not allow an American president to walk away without repercussions for the violence and insurrection he fomented.

• The Lincoln Project will also target advertising for these corporations’ workers, hoping to “destabilize the companies’ operations by fomenting employee rebellions,” said Steve Schmidt, co-founder of the Lincoln Project.

• Following reports of genocide in Myanmar, Facebook banned the country’s top general and other military leaders who were using the platform to foment hate.

• More importantly, he has frustrated other separatists and those who would foment separatist movements, like China and Russia.

• Given all of this, Iran is apparently disinclined to foment a political rebellion against Maliki among the Shia.

• They can exacerbate splits within a ruling leadership, foment popular unrest, or expedite a dwindling current account.

• The Cubans claim Gross was a spy who was trying to foment revolution.

• We tried to foment one against Hamas after it won democratic elections among the Palestinians in 2006.

• Jenny brought in a large basin of warm water and began to foment it first, touching it so tenderly.