I am not from US, I hate FB during electoral campagins not because of paid ads but because of people sharing tons of political crap, I would like to hide all political post and shares of my friends and ads.
I also don't live in the US, but similar issues exist in many countries, including mine, and I appreciate any company publically showing their support for this cause (and other causes important to me). Of course some companies support those causes only for publicity reasons. But it's still positive signaling.
BLM isn't only relevant to the US. It's not as if Poland doesn't have any issues with racism.
I actually think this has been one of the positive effects of the high profile of BLM. Too many European countries have been content to tell themselves that racism is an American problem which they don't have.
More relevant to Poland is the conservative consolidation of power and rollback of LGBT rights.
(And if you want to start a really uncomfortable discussion about racism in Poland, the Holocaust will definitely do that)
BLM has no monopoly on fighting racism. EAs claims to be interested in fighting racism is an insult to many people. I think a lot of members of BLM are racists.
Most large political organizations in the US have "ties" of some kind or another to one or both of the major political parties. But BLM isn't a single monolithic organization.
The main problem is that US political elections "season" runs for 2 years! So out of every 4 years, half of the time is campaigning season so it means that the rest of the worlds social media is polluted with "tons of political crap" 50% of the time.
For US folks: look at how other western democracies run their electoral campaigns to help understand this. They tend to be much much shorter in duration. For international users - remember that for Americans, it's normal to be swamped in political campaigning pollution for half of their time.
But from a rational and idealistic point of view, none of this makes much sense. Campaigning is a huge waste of everyones attention and energy.
I disagree, before the election start here the politicians won't even be sure who will be candidate, then the flyers, walking trough the streets will not happen, there will be no debates on TV. When campaign starts soem peolpe get activated and they will try to promote their favorite party/ person - I am OK with that I would like an option to not see those posts, or an option to hide all posts from this person for the campagin duration. I think this persons think they are doing the right thing and informing people etc I just don't care and when I open FB once a week to see if there is some message for me I would like to see only relevant stuff.
Anyway, here in Romania I do not see many political posts outside electoral campaigns or when the government is doing some shity stuff and people are calling them out , or when some politician says a stupid thing and memes are created about their idiocy(now thinking about it if you have politicians that say a lot of idiotic things often you get a ton of political memes/satire ).
It is true that 2 out of 4 years are US election years, but that's because of the midterm elections in the middle.
Twitter provide a great solution; the ability to mute words. Just mute the names of election candidates and a few other choice buzzwords and all that noise will be gone.
Alternately, just delete your Facebook account, and stop donating content and ad revenue to a censorship platform.
I am not a big FB user, but FB is the only way I can keep in touch with some of my colleagues from school/university , sadly soem of them are not on FB and the old phone numbers are not valid so they are just gone, no idea if they are still alive