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Facebook removes Trump ads that included markings used by Nazis

Facebook said Thursday it has removed ads by President Donald Trump's reelection campaign that broke the company's policy against "organized hate." The ads featured a marking once used by the Nazis to designate political prisoners in concentration camps. "Our policy prohibits using a banned hate group's symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol," Andy Stone, a Facebook spokesman, told the Washington Post. Facebook has faced criticism from its own employees for inaction on controversial posts from President Donald Trump. Twitter , meanwhile, has affixed fact checks to the president's tweets about mail-in voting. Read More...

Facebook said Thursday it has removed ads by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign that broke the company’s policy against “organized hate.” The ads featured a marking once used by the Nazis to designate political prisoners in concentration camps. “Our policy prohibits using a banned hate group’s symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol,” Andy Stone, a Facebook spokesman, told the Washington Post. Facebook has faced criticism from its own employees for inaction on controversial posts from President Donald Trump. Twitter , meanwhile, has affixed fact checks to the president’s tweets about mail-in voting.

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