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March 5, 2020 04:54 pm GMT
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Trump's 'census' ads certainly seem like they violate Facebook's rules (UPDATED)
UPDATE: March 5, 2020, 3:19 p.m. EST Facebook has done an about face on the ads, telling Vanita Gupta, president of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, in an email (as reported by journalist Judd Legum) that they will take the ads down. In the email, the company said, "Upon further review, these ads are currently being taken down given the policies in place to prevent confusion around the official U.S. Census."
Our original story is posted below.
Facebook failed us again. It's allowing Donald Trump to use misleading ads related to the U.S. census despite Facebook's pledge to stop these kinds of shenanigans. Read more...
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