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Judd Legum
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UPDATE: Facebook admits it ran hundreds of Trump campaign ads that violate Facebook rules

The company says it took the ads offline after a report by popular.info

popular.info/p/trump-campai…
Facebook told me "we’re always looking to improve our enforcement, which is never perfect"

The company acknowledges that the ads were "subject to Facebook's ad review system, which relies primarily on automated tools to check ads against these policies"

popular.info/p/trump-campai…
Facebook had $15 BILLION in revenue last quarter and has well over 35,000 employees.

I'm just one dude on my couch with bad allergies and I've identified hundreds of Trump campaign ads that blatantly violate their rules

popular.info/p/trump-campai…
Anyway, you can support independent accountability journalism that can create change at the world's largest corporations by subscribing to my newsletter.

It's doesn't cost $15 billion. It's $50/year or $6/month.

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Judd Legum
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1. I REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT FACEBOOK AND THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN ARE AT IT AGAIN

Facebook is allowing the Trump campaign to run false and misleading ads with impunity

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2. Yesterday at 1PM, I contacted Facebook and flagged dozens of ads from the Trump campaign that falsely claimed Democrats are advocating "a repeal of the Second Amendment."

This violates Facebook's policy against "false and misleading ads."

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3. At 7PM Monday, Facebook confirmed that it had received my question and promised to get back to me. I had given the company a deadline of 10PM.

By Tuesday morning, I heard nothing from Facebook but all the ads that I had flagged were marked "inactive"

popular.info/p/facebook-all…
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Judd Legum
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New Trump Facebook ads point users to a lengthy MEDIA ACCOUNTABILITY SURVEY
Send in your contribution by 9PM tonight and it'll be delivered to Trump right as he's watching Hannity
There is also a "secure the border" survey, a second amendment survey, and a "one question" survey (Spoiler: this is the question)
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1. The last three years have not been good for Facebook. Things started going off the rails after the 2016 election when people discovered that Facebook let its platform be used to disseminate pro-Trump misinformation. popular.info/p/rage-against…
2. Some of the shadiest stuff was done by the Trump campaign itself. In an interview with Bloomberg days before the election, the campaign bragged that it was using Facebook to suppress African- American votes in crucial states. popular.info/p/rage-against…
3. In the aftermath, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledged to fix the problem. Usually, he sets an ambitious personal development goal each year, like learning Mandarin. In 2018, Zuckerberg resolved to fix the company. popular.info/p/rage-against…
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