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soothsayer

(38,601 posts) Tue Oct 27, 2020, 08:23 PM Oct 2020

Facebook admits it approved hundreds of Trump ads this week that violate its pre-election rules and

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Judd Legum
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UPDATE: Facebook admits it approved hundreds of Trump ads this week that violate its pre-election rules and has taken them down

https://popular.info/p/facebook-approves-trump-ads-that

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Facebook admits it approved hundreds of Trump ads this week that violate its pre-election rules and (Original Post) soothsayer Oct 2020 OP

It is like they expect FB to place principles over revenue. How quaint. Thomas Hurt Oct 2020 #1

Fakebook makes Wohl and Burkman look like amateurs Ponietz Oct 2020 #2

Facebook policy is a farce. They wait to get 'caught' before fixing things. crickets Oct 2020 #3

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)

1. It is like they expect FB to place principles over revenue. How quaint.

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Tue Oct 27, 2020, 08:26 PM

Oct 2020

Ponietz

(3,034 posts)

2. Fakebook makes Wohl and Burkman look like amateurs

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Tue Oct 27, 2020, 08:45 PM

Oct 2020

crickets

(25,987 posts)

3. Facebook policy is a farce. They wait to get 'caught' before fixing things.

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Tue Oct 27, 2020, 09:12 PM

Oct 2020

While the Trump campaign has seen its ads approved, Priorities USA, a Democratic Super PAC, has had a different experience. The group reported that 586 of its ads, designed to encourage voter turnout, were rejected. The problem, allegedly, was that the ads were not active prior to October 27. But Josh Scherwin, Priorities USA's Communications Director, said that was not true and that all the ads had impressions delivered prior to the deadline. Other liberal groups are facing similar issues.

Adweek reported the problem was widespread.

The whole article is worth a read, if you can stand it.

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