Facebook Finally Stands Against Trump, Removes 88+ Ads Violating ‘Organized Hate’ Policy
It looks like Donald Trump finally posted something Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg couldn’t refuse to take down. The social media platform announced that they removed at least 88 ads on Thursday that were “violating [their] policy against organized hate.”
The ads in question were all identical and featured an upside-dow red triangle — a symbol notably used by the Nazi party in World War II to identify political dissidents in concentration camps. Speaking on the take-down, a spokesperson wrote, “Our policy prohibits using a banned hate group’s symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol.”
The ads were iniitally posted on Wednesday from the president’s official account, the vice president’s official account, and the official Trump campaign account. Later in the day, multiple advocacy groups and social media users called out the ads as “campaigning for reelection using a Nazi concentration camp symbol.” However, a Twitter account for the Trump campaign denied the claims, stating, “This is an emoji. 🔻It’s also a symbol widely used by Antifa. It was used in an ad about Antifa. It is not in the ADL’s Hate Symbols Database.”
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