Hundreds of Trump campaign ads that appeared to reference the U.S. census were placed on Facebook. Facebook has disabled this.
Facebook deletes more than 1,000 Trump ads – The most important thing to start with:
Donald Trump's ads violated rules against spreading false information. The ads had a reference to the US census, but redirected to a survey about Trump's election campaign.
Donald Trump: More than 1,000 ads deleted
A Facebook spokesman has confirmed that more than 1,000 advertisements for US President Donald Trump's election campaign have been deleted because they violated rules against the spread of false information.
In Facebook's advertising library you can see that the ads in question appear to be inactive for a while. Facebook is clearly showing that they are responding to criticism of not wanting to check posts from politicians.
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Reference to the US Census
Among other things, the US Census makes decisions about the division of electoral districts.
Trump's advertisements in question all gave the impression of being related to an official government website for the US census. Journalist Judd Leggum discovered that the ads, however, redirected to a Trump campaign poll, reports Engadget . “Engadget” also points out that Facebook agreed last year to take action against misleading information about the US census.
Are political entries now checked or not?
In the case of these ads, Facebook would have kept its promise regarding the census. However, there is a contradiction here. Namely, that Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly stated that he stood for extensive freedom of expression and would, under certain circumstances, false information on Facebook: Entries from politicians would therefore neither be fact-checked nor deleted.
Facebook employees publicly criticized this because they said politicians were “using the platform as a weapon.”
Source: heise.de
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