Facebook pulls Trump campaign ad violating platform's policy

The Hill ^ | 08/20/19 | Owen Daugherty

[yesthatjallen]

Facebook has reportedly pulled an ad for President Trump’s reelection campaign after it violated the platform’s advertising policies.

Popular Info reported in its newsletter Monday that Facebook pulled the Trump ad because it violated a policy that prohibits ads targeting "personal attributes."

The ad in question featured a crowd of women with the caption, “The Women for Trump Coalition needs the support of strong women like you!”

Facebook’s ad policy prohibits “content that asserts or implies personal attributes,” including, among other things, "direct or indirect assertions or implications about a person’s ... gender identity."

Facebook reportedly pulled the ad following an inquiry from Popular Info.

"We've notified the campaign that the ads violate policy. They can’t continue to run unless fixed," a Facebook spokesperson told the outlet.

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[yesthatjallen]

...violated a policy that prohibits ads targeting "personal attributes."

WTH?

[cuban leaf]

This is hilarious. Somebody attributed an Onion article to The Hill.

At least, that had better be what happened.

[LukeL]

So does that mean NOW and the Congressional Black Caucus can no longer run ads?

[jimtorr]

I would guess Facepalm would say that assuming all the people who appear to be women in the photo identify as women, is targeting a personal attribute.

[Responsibility2nd]

Folks, this is just the beginning.

Social media will be the end of the US as we know it.

Google alone accounted for Hillary being up 10 points in the 2016 election. She barely lost.

In 2020? Google, Facebook, Twitter et al won’t make another mistake again. Unless immediate action is taken to legally or illegally reign in these socialistic monopolies; Trump won’t stand a chance.

Even with idiots like Biden, Beto, Buttgig etc. as opponents.

[SamAdams76]

Correct. I deleted my Facebook account and my wife followed suit because we were getting so much abuse for supporting Trump.

Social media is definitely a way for the establishment to control the masses - and shout down (and shut down) anybody that falls out of line.

Still hanging in there on Twitter and Reddit.

[DesertRhino]

WHEN are we going to see the executive order that NO executive branch agency may maintain a Facebook page? No DOD, FBI, CIA, USDA, DHS, HHS, Social Security, FHA, USFS, etc.

They need to be delegitimized, and lose all protection as a neutral channel. They need to be exposed to content based lawsuits as the PUBLISHER they are. They are not a neutral channel.

[SkyDancer]

Oh? But this is okay?? (Sorry I pound on this but every time FB comes up with stupid stuff I post)

'How to pick up Jewish chicks': Vile antisemitic picture shows human remains on a shovel - but Facebook refused to remove it

Source: theage Facebook has been accused of "enabling vicious Jewish hatred" after telling users an image depicting human remains on a shovel below the tag line "How to pick up Jewish chicks" did not breach its standards.

Just days after back flipping on its decision to censor an iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl escaping a napalm bombing, the social media giant is again under fire over its handling of posts reported as offensive.

In reply to complaints about the shovel image - which was widely shared, "liked" 21,000 times, and received more than 37,000 comments - Facebook said: "We reviewed the post you reported for displaying hate speech and found it doesn't violate our community standards."

Under its community standards policy, Facebook says it "removes hate speech" that attacks people based on their race, ethnicity, national origin and religious affiliation.

"We allow humor, satire or social commentary related to these topics, and we believe that when people use their authentic identity, they are more responsible when they share this kind of commentary," the policy says.

The image was posted to a page attributed to a Queensland man late last month and shared 2280 times. It has now been removed but tens of thousands of comments, many of which are anti-Semitic, were still visible in the thread as late as Thursday.

A Facebook spokesman said the image was removed for breaching community standards and that the company was still investigating.

But 24 hours after being asked, the spokesman could still not say when the photo was taken down. Facebook could also not explain why only the photo was initially removed and not the entire thread - which is standard when a post is pulled.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Even tampon commercials?

Queue the male models.

[erkelly]

How to DELETE facebook account:

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/how-to-delete-facebook-account-2950145

[kempster]

Just EMail it yo your followers and we will get the word out.

[SkyDancer]

I don’t have a FB account anymore after that post; neither do I have a LinkedIn professional account.

[arthurus]

Simple. Jews are not human beings. That is more and more what the Left is sidling around but what they believe.

[SkyDancer]

But somehow they or some worship a Jewish carpenter. Talk about your cultural appropriation.

[SkyDancer]

As was proven years ago. Abandoned Jewish children Warsaw ghetto.

[Carriage Hill]

Same azzholes who published the 58 “genders” idiocy, a couple years back. No surprise there.

[yoe]

I have found DuckDuckGo is sufficient for most of my searches and I get no ads! there are good search engines rather than google without ads popping up everywhere. Probably 95% of Social Media has no skin in the game when they set out to destroy, sort of like disturbing a red ant hill or hornets nest...dangerous and funny from a distance, at the same time....

[silverleaf]

I would like to see Facebooks revised politically corrected version of this ad.

[Carriage Hill]

Here’s that article:

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/02/heres-a-list-of-58-gender-options-for-facebook-users/

[yesthatjallen]

“The Women for Trump Coalition needs the support of strong women like you!”

According to Facebook, they will no longer allow the phrase "strong women"*.

*They will not apply this rule to feminists.