Facebook Censors Trump Campaign Ads

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Ironically, none of the ads that made Democrats famous (or infamous), i.e. the Daisy ad, would be permitted in the new age of censorship and oppression.

Facebook Censors Trump Campaign Ads, Claims ‘Census Interference’

By:Lucas Nolan, Breitbart, 6 Mar 20201,034

Social media giant Facebook has removed Trump campaign ads which refer to an online survey as the “Official 2020 Congressional District Census,” claiming the ads violate the company’s policy on disinformation and interference with the 2020 census.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that social media giant Facebook has removed campaign ads from the Trump Make America Great Again Committee that referred to an online survey as a census.

Facebook alleges that the ads violated a company policy designed to prevent the spread of disinformation and other interference relating to the nationwide 2020 census which is set to go online next week.

The ads from the Trump campaign began running online last week and asked people to take the “Official 2020 Congressional District Census” which then directed Facebook users to a website for fundraising to support President Trump’s re-election. The ads stated: “The information we gather from this survey will help us craft our strategies for YOUR CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.”

Facebook stated this week that it was the first time that the company had removed a Trump campaign ad for violating its census interference policy, with a spokesperson stating: “There are policies to prevent confusion around the U.S. Census, and this is an example of those being enforced.”

The banned ads were paid for by Trump Make America Great Again Committee, a joint fundraising committee of Donald J. Trump for President Inc. and the Republican National Committee. Facebook has come under intense pressure recently to fact check political ads on its platform, which so far it has refused to do. It appears that the removal of the Trump campaign’s ads are the first recent political ads on its platform to be heavily scrutinized and removed.

Some of the campaign ads are still active on the platform while others were removed, as of Thursday afternoon. Democrats on Capitol Hill criticized the ads with House Peaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stating before the ads were removed: “This is, on the part of Facebook, a robust unacceptable interference in the census.” At her weekly news conference, Pelosi added: “I know the profit motive is their business model, but it should not come at the cost of counting who is in our country so that we can provide the services.”

In December, Facebook announced a new policy designed to prevent census interference by banning misleading information about “when and how to participate in the census and the consequences of participating.” The social media firm also banned any ads that portray census participation “as useless or meaningless” or advising people not to participate.

Vanita Gupta, president and chief executive of the Education Fund which was a group that worked with Facebook to develop appropriate rules to prohibit census interference on its platform, criticized the time it took Facebook to remove the Trump campaign’s ads, saying: “While we’re gratified that Facebook shut down Trump’s attempt to sow confusion about how and when to participate in the 2020 Census, it’s disturbing that the ads weren’t immediately removed.”

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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago

“That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.” ~ Joseph Goebbels

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

WHEN is something going to be done about this?

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Never, unless, these people intoxicated by this Nazified crap switch on their brains to think or face accountability for themselves. Numerous people are basically mentally lazy; Facebook and others pander to those dwelling in a vacuous time zone; especially, Democrats and Liberals. Liberals/Democrats prefer someone else to be accountable for their lives, the global village/globalism/Totalitarianism.

Roland
Roland
4 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

To switch on their brains implies that they actually have brains!

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Until the Twelfth of Never ….

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

You are probably right but miracles do happen!

strangequark
strangequark
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Let’s hope…for the miracles that is.

Philip
Philip
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Eventually.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago

Zuckerberg’s censoring Trump’s Campaign Ads on Facebook is indeed, the Goebbel’s Effect. The other social media propaganda enterprise will quickly follow suit. It will, however, blow-up in their smug, anti-Semitic, anti-Trump/America faces.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

Trump did meet privately with Zuckerberg at the WH. Trump knows he will get nothing through Congress. So he had him for dinner at the WH to point out lost revenue if he discriminates during an election cycle. Supposedly Zuckerberg was in agreement and was going to ease up on that. FB is nothing more than a billboard for advertising and selling people’s personal data. We’ll have to see what happens…

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Zuckerberg should be in prison for a number of reasons. I, being a cynic, doubt anything will happen. Then again, another term for Trump may give him the opportunity to take down this lil Nazi and several others.

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
4 years ago

If the Republicans cannot run ads, neither should the Demoncrats as not giving equal levels of media coverage.

Trump needs to bring in an Executive Order to fix immediately and hold companies liable with hefty fines and jail for executives.

For Facebook hundreds of billions fined and jail for Mark Zuckerberg for ten years is needed

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
4 years ago

Republicans can run ads. They just can’t disguise them as something else.

Philip
Philip
4 years ago

Again. Eventually the censors go too far. You’d think we’d reached that point years ago. Apparently not yet. Maybe by 2023?

MAS
MAS
4 years ago

Great idea Facebook, let’s poke the Trump monster and see what happens…

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Off topic . Trump is thinking ahead….

Trump Agrees to Provide Israel the Technology it Needs to Take Out Iran
By David Sidman March 5, 2020 , 4:31 pm

If Israel indeed decides to take out Iran, the Trump administration has just made it much easier.

That’s because the U.S. State Department approved an Israeli request to buy eight KC-46A Pegasus aerial tankers reports the Middle East Forum. This includes support equipment, spare parts, and training. The entire deal is valued at $2.4 billion. The first aircraft shipment is set to arrive in 2023.

So long as the sale is approved by the U.S. Congress — which is likely — is notable from several perspectives. This will be the first time Washington sold tanker aircraft to Israel.

https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/146323/trump-agrees-to-provide-israel-the-technology-it-needs-to-take-out-irans-nuclear-sites/

P.M. Netabyahu has won the popular vote again but the same problem remains. He doesn’t have the 61 seats to form a majority government so he will have to scramble again and hope something has changed. If he doesn’t a fourth election may be needed…. He has also been indicted with phony charges and now there is debate if he should serve in any capacity while under indictment. He is getting the Trump treatment with bogus nonsense.

StevenRobert
StevenRobert
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

This will possibly become another issue in the Presidential election, since the Democrats control the House. Approval is not a foregone conclusion.

StevenRobert
StevenRobert
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

This will possibly become another issue in the Presidential election, since the Democrats control the House. Approval is not a foregone conclusion.

JeromefromLayton
JeromefromLayton
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

According to the article I read, this will be a shared asset meaning our planes in that area will have more flying gas stations available. This is a good thing.

TD
TD
4 years ago

Well, Trump is ranked #1 on Facebook.

I see why the Fake-book elite are panicking.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

WOW

dapto
dapto
4 years ago

What gets me is how the MSN lying Turds keep calling the Nazis far right when they were socialists and Socialists are far left.

jbaviera
jbaviera
4 years ago
Reply to  dapto

Because compared to themselves, Nazis ARE far right.

anonQ
anonQ
4 years ago

What? Facebook censors Trump ad’s? Oh wow! I’m so surprised! (sarcasm intended). I really don’t see why anyone is surprised about this. It’s pretty much common knowledge that FB is left wing. Why anyone on the right would want to use FB is beyond me. If you don’t wan’t your ad’s censored, don’t post your ad’s on FB, it’s simple.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago

To my everlasting credit, I have NEVER been on “Fakebook” (as Rush Limbaugh calls it) in my life and don’t intend to start now.

Besides, based on past performance gleaned from news reports, they have their own nest full of sh*t.

Choice America
Choice America
4 years ago

This alone was enough to begin the facebook shut down once and for all. And so it has started.

Michael Goldman
Michael Goldman
3 years ago
Reply to  Choice America

Absolutely. I have no need for them at all. Shut them down.

plusaf
plusaf
4 years ago

So, FB, I just posted the link to this page to my FB page with exactly this comment….

“So, FACEBOOK, if Trump’s organizations changed the name from “census” to “poll” or “survey,” that would be OK?

So, WhyTF not just TELL THEM THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE?????????”

… Jerks.

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
4 years ago
Reply to  plusaf

It’s up to the Trump campaign to know what complies with the TOS.

leonore35
leonore35
4 years ago

I saw a very amusing South Park cartoon last night about a site like Facebook. Really put in its place

Defence Man
Defence Man
4 years ago

Probably the biggest mistake Zuckerberg could make is going head to head with President Trump. Mark Z is nothing more than an over privileged suck that in the end will regret what he is doing to the greatest president this nation has had in many decades.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

By what right or privilege does a “Vanita Gupta” have authority to decide the content of identified political ads? Is she a Chinese agent,a Russian agent, or just a LibTard intoxicated with some authority handed her by wannabe “Big Brother” Zucky?

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
4 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

Easy—Facebook is not considered part of government…and thus can formulate and enforce its own policy without violating 1A. It doesn’t matter what ethnicity she is. Don’t like it? Go elsewhere—and forget about trying to take control of Facebook, as it’s a dual class company where Zuckerberg and co-founder Eduardo Saverin own almost all of the supervoting Class B stock. (Even without the dual class structure, they’re the largest shareholders anyhow.)

JeromefromLayton
JeromefromLayton
4 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

Sounds like someone from a Mumbai phone bank or Microsoft tech support.

BigMG
BigMG
4 years ago

Devils may call Angels demons, not that they are, but from the suffering they inflict upon the damned.

Lenin-McCarthy
Lenin-McCarthy
4 years ago
Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
4 years ago

I would teach Facebook a good lesson. It’s a monopoly, break it up!

StevenRobert
StevenRobert
4 years ago
Reply to  Stephen Honig

I think anti-trust action is way overdue. During an election year, this will be politicized, and the courts could go either way on it, since much of the court system has been politicized and has become partisan, perhaps even being involved in the “resistance”.

StevenRobert
StevenRobert
4 years ago
Reply to  Stephen Honig

I think anti-trust action is way overdue. During an election year, this will be politicized, and the courts could go either way on it, since much of the court system has been politicized and has become partisan, perhaps even being involved in the “resistance”.

Murielle
Murielle
4 years ago

Makes me want to post as many Trump ads to FB as I can find.

StevenRobert
StevenRobert
4 years ago

There maybe a lawsuit about it, but it wouldn’t get to the Supreme Court until after the election. Probably put out an alternate ad so they can achieve essentially the same objective without mentioning census. Facebook is a private platform, which the government has enabled. Facebook doesn’t have the same liberties when run in foreign countries such as the EU and certainly not in China. Likely there will be more and more legal challenges to Facebook in the future.Being a private Platform, Facebook can do. Pretty much as it pleases. Until the government steps in with antitrust or monopoly action, perhaps even legislation, this will become more and more blatant. I expect Facebook and other social media to run their own political campaigns before it’s all settled.
I think Josh Harley, senator, who appears to have considerable knowledge about technical issues and the social platforms, has addressed this issue, but being that the(House is in the hands of the Democrats, don’t expect any change until after the election, and if Biden wins the Presidency, there will never be any change.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago

It’s that time again: The old unspirits of world history are taken out of the moth box and conjured up again. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/07/german-city-to-erect-statue-of-communist-mass-murderer-vladimir-lenin/

Not long ago, Coronachina gave Trier, the birthplace of Marx, a chunky sculpture with his likeness. But te poisoned blood red “birthday present” was not rejected in indignation, but ceremonially inaugurated by leading “democratic” politicians without a trace of shame.

CaMaven
CaMaven
4 years ago

I’ve been receiving various political “census” inquiries for years. This is merely a ploy to shut down Republican communications with the public.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago

Touching story: August Landmesser, the former Nazi who became famouse post mortem for refusing the Hitler salute and who was killed for his love to his lovely Jewish wife and daughters. https://www.spurensuche-kreis-pinneberg.de/spur/august-friedrich-landmesser-opfer-des-nationalsozialismus/

jbaviera
jbaviera
4 years ago

Sad thing is, were they democrap campaign/census ads, they would be front-and-center!

Roland
Roland
4 years ago

AHA! This means fakebook is working with Putin and are Russian spies. Arrest them for treason!

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