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Facebook takes down false ad from PAC on Republican Graham
Reuters ^ | October 26, 2019 | Elizabeth Culliford

Posted on 10/26/2019 5:27:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Facebook Inc said on Saturday that it had removed an ad which falsely claimed that U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham supported the Green New Deal, demonstrating that it will fact-check ads from political groups but not politicians.

The ad, which ran on Friday, was put up as a stunt by a left-leaning Political Action Committee, or PAC, called The Really Online Lefty League, to test Facebook’s political ad policies.

Facebook has been criticized in recent weeks over its decision to not fact-check ads run by politicians, drawing ire from Democratic candidates running in the 2020 presidential election such as former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Politics
KEYWORDS: biden; censorship; facebook; graham; socialmedia; warren

1 posted on 10/26/2019 5:27:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The ad, which ran on Friday, was put up as a stunt by a left-leaning Political Action Committee, or PAC, called The Really Online Lefty League, to test Facebook’s political ad policies.

And I’m going to bet Facebook was in on the stunt so they could point to their “fairness.”
2 posted on 10/26/2019 5:29:35 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does not pass the smell test.


3 posted on 10/26/2019 5:30:19 PM PDT by HChampagne (Cruz supporter but I will support and vote for Trump.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is up to the voters to decide what is or isnt false.

That is the very essence of the marketplace of ideas.


4 posted on 10/26/2019 5:30:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Rastus

Stunt? More like intent to deceive. Sounds criminal to me.


5 posted on 10/26/2019 5:30:53 PM PDT by Maudeen (http://thereishopeinjesus.com/)
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To: Rastus

What if we ran an ad that stated Graham still supports amnesty for illegal aliens?


6 posted on 10/26/2019 5:37:15 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Rastus

that’s what i thought


7 posted on 10/26/2019 5:45:50 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wanna bet this was planned between Graham himself and Zuckerberg?


8 posted on 10/26/2019 5:48:59 PM PDT by montag813
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Bad news. They are trying to make Facebook the censoring authority.

Facebook should not be determining what is fact or fiction. They should openly say so.

They are not God. They cannot do this. That is the whole purpose of the First Amendment.

There is no authority to pre-emptively say this political thing is fact or not.

At worst, the courts should decide egregious cases such as this.

9 posted on 10/26/2019 5:51:07 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Rastus

AOC was in on it because this ad is almost word-for-word of a hypothetical false ad she threw at Zuckerberg


10 posted on 10/26/2019 5:51:26 PM PDT by digger48
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To: digger48

AOC was in on it because this ad is almost word-for-word of a hypothetical false ad she threw at Zuckerberg...

just the day before


11 posted on 10/26/2019 5:52:28 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Rastus

I agree!


12 posted on 10/26/2019 6:07:26 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: Maudeen

Harry Reid blatantly lying about Mitt Romney was not criminal.

What Facebook is doing here is wrong and becoming the truthiness detector and arbiter of what’s “real”

It should NOT be their job.


13 posted on 10/26/2019 6:26:20 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well they’re not going to get an atta boy from me. Suckerberg is still a POS to me. He’s just posing as a fair arbiter who doesn’t have an axe to grind but will be just as leftist as ever and put the kibosh on right-leaning posters.


14 posted on 10/26/2019 6:42:12 PM PDT by princeofdarkness (Leftists. Their only response to failure is to double down.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It was probably put up by a Freeper troll, because Graham is doing very well right now in defending Trump against this insanely illegal, on the fly “process” the Dems have generated.

But there are some people here who hate Graham more than they support Trump, so they’ll do anything to destroy Graham without even considering the consequences.

Or maybe they’re Dem trolls, trying to destroy the one person who has emerged as an actual power player, and on top of that, a pro-Trump one (on most but not all issues), in the formerly dead Senate?


15 posted on 10/26/2019 6:47:40 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius

Graham has not done anything substantive.
He’s posturing for re-election purposes.
He is still fully committed to amnesty for illegal aliens.
He does not side with the citizens and the rule of law.
He wants to give the Democrats a permanent majority.


16 posted on 10/26/2019 6:54:56 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; alarm rider; Alex1977; at bay; Babsig; BILL_C; bnelson44; Califreak; ColdOne; ...
Lindsey

Graham

Ping!

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Remember that linda is up for reelection in 2020.
Remember also that linda is writing a Red Flag bill.


17 posted on 10/26/2019 7:34:27 PM PDT by upchuck (Criminals love gun control. It gives them a safe work environment.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

would be nice if project veritas could get in on facebook and expose them as well


18 posted on 10/26/2019 9:15:16 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If Facebook would allow dissenting viewpoints, then people could make up their own minds and not rely on a big brother entity.... hmmmm


19 posted on 10/27/2019 5:24:04 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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