Facebook has been pretty clear that it won't police the truthiness of political ads on its platform. But the company apparently does have some sort of threshold for removing certain ads, and it's pretty silly in the grand scheme of things.
As noted by Fast Company, a number of ads pushed out by President Trump's Make America Great Again Committee have been removed from the platform because they violated Facebook's "Advertising Policies."
Here's one example.
This ad is a no-no.
Image: Screenshot / Facebook
As far as political ads go, this is one is relatively innocuous. (Well, depending on what you think about the repercussions of the killing of Qassem Soleimani.) The ad doesn't contain any outright lies or deepfakes. Read more...
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