Sunday, August 09, 2020


Facebook bans pro-Trump super PAC from advertising on its platform

Blatant political censorship

Facebook announced Thursday that it will ban pro-Trump super PAC, The Committee to Defend The President, from buying ads on its platform.

“As a result of the Committee to Defend the President’s repeated sharing of content determined by third-party fact-checkers to be false, they will not be permitted to advertise for a period of time on our platform,” Facebook Policy communications director Andy Stone told FOX Business in a statement.

The page will lose advertising privileges for a minimum of 90 days. The advertising ban will take effect on August 10, and would end around November 1.

Committee chairman Ted Harvey told FOX Business in a statement that Facebook is "determined to restrict free speech and attack those who dare to support President Trump."

The move comes a day after the platform removed a video of President Trump which it said "includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation."

In the removed video, the president told Fox & Friends that schools should remain open.

"My view is that schools should be open," Trump said. “If you look at children, children are almost — and I would almost say definitely — but almost immune from this disease.”

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

These so called "fact checkers" are simply an extension of the liberal media and have nothing to do with facts.

Anonymous said...

These are censors pretending to be fact checkers.

It's quite evident in how they pick and choose whom to censor.

Therefore it's time to stop calling them "fact checkers" because that is not what they are or what they are doing.

Bill R. said...

Things like this make me more determined to vote for the President's reelection.