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Facebook Removed Trump Campaign Ad For “Organized Hate” Violation

June 18, 2020
Tyler Durden

Facebook Removed Trump Campaign Ad For “Organized Hate” Violation

Tyler Durden

Thu, 06/18/2020 – 13:39

CNN just confirmed a report initially published by the NY Daily News that Facebook removed a Trump 2020 campaign ad over violations of its “organized hate” policy.

FB CEO Mark Zuckerberg infamously earned the ire of Congressional Democrats and the progressive left after refusing to censor political ads containing alleged “misinformation” (as all political ads have since time immemorial).

Apparently, the offending ad can be seen below: Certain iterations of the ad included a symbol that the Trump campaign intended to associate with the “left-wing mobs” it referenced in the post.

Apparently, Facebook deemed that the red upside down triangle is associated with the holocaust after a far-left group posing as a ‘human rights’ organization accused Trump of “campaigning for the 2020 election using a Nazi concentration camp symbol”.

In a pattern that is, by now, familiar, the Washington Post ran a story that was published earlier today claiming that the campaign ad bore the ‘nazi’ symbol (it appears WaPo’s main source was the activist group cited above).  The Washington Post’s inquiry appears to have prompted Facebook to censor the post, according to a company spokesman who spoke with WaPo.

“We removed these posts and ads for violating our policy against organized hate,” said Andy Stone, a Facebook spokesman. “Our policy prohibits using a banned hate group’s symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol.”

However, the Trump campaign (which was quoted in the WaPo article), responded with clear examples of Antifa merchandise bearing the upside down red triangle in question, which one of Trump’s campaign reps described as “an antifa symbol”.

And while several left-wing trolls tried to suggest that evidence of the upside down red triangle had been planted by the Trump campaign, a reporter for – get this – NBC News decided to investigate to see if the Trump campaign really had planted the image…

…the verdict? the campaign didn’t just make it up.

We suspect that almost none of the users who viewed the ad on Facebook made the association, which is why it was apparently flagged by an activist group that’s clearly digging for anything in Trump’s campaign materials that can possibly be portrayed as ‘racist’ or ‘antisemetic’ – however tenuous the connection.

Of course, a quick google search reveals that antifa-branded merchandise frequently bears the symbol, which was reportedly used in concentration camps to mark non-Jewish political prisoners.