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August 23, 2019 11:30 pm
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Facebook Bans Ads From The Epoch Times
Facebook has banned advertising from The Epoch Times, the Falun Gong-related publication and conservative news outlet, as the social network struggles to implement a consistent political advertising policy. The New York Times reports: Facebook issued the ban on Friday after NBC News published a report this week that said The Epoch Times had obscured its connection to recent Facebook ads promoting President Trump and conspiracy content. The Epoch Times, started in 2000 by a group of Chinese-Americans affiliated with the religious group Falun Gong, has in recent years ridden the wave of conservative, pro-Trump social media popularity to build a large social media following. On its website, it advances conspiracy content such as anti-vaccination theories, while its YouTube channels promote the pro-Trump fringe movement QAnon and other topics. The Epoch Times's official Facebook accounts were banned by the social network in July. But according to the NBC report, it then ran new Facebook ads without disclosing that they were associated with the outlet. The ads ran under page names such as "Honest Paper" and "Pure American Journalism" and purchased by MarketFuel Subscription Services and Perpetual Market, which are decoy names for The Epoch Times, according to NBC News. Facebook introduced political advertising transparency rules in 2018 that require political advertisers to divulge the name of organizations responsible for the ads. But The Epoch Times was apparently able to sidestep those rules before being caught. Stephen Gregory, publisher of The Epoch Times, said in a statement that Facebook did not earlier respond to requests for clarification on why its ads were taken down, so it began "publishing its advertising on a number of other, new Facebook pages." He added that "these ads were overtly Epoch Times advertisements for our subscription."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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