Facebook Removes “Racist” Trump Caravan Election Ad

With the U.S. midterm elections tomorrow, Facebook swiftly removed an ad from its platform that was deemed “racist” and “sensational” by CNN and others.

The advertisement was run by President Trump’s re-election campaign but violated the social media site’s advertising policy against sensational conduct.

The ad calls for Republicans to stop thousands of immigrants from crossing the U.S. border, warning of an invasion” of 7,000 immigrants headed to the U.S. “Stop the caravan. Vote Republican. I’m Donald Trump, and I approve this message,” the 30-second advertisement says.

Facebook said that it would no longer allow Trump’s re-election campaign to run advertisements urging Americans to vote for Republicans to stop thousands of immigrants from crossing the U.S.

“This ad violates Facebook’s advertising policy against sensational content so has been rejected,” a Facebook spokeswoman said. “While the video is allowed to be posted on Facebook, it cannot receive paid distribution.”

Facebook’s policy says that “ads must not contain shocking, sensational, disrespectful or excessively violent content.”

“This includes dehumanizing or denigrating entire groups of people and using frightening and exaggerated rumors of danger,” the policy reads.

Brad Parscale, the manager for Trump’s 2020 campaign, has criticized Facebook as well as NBC and Fox News for not running the ads.

Parscale tweeted, “So, @NBCNews @CNN @facebook have chosen to stand with those ILLEGALLY IN THIS COUNTRY. Instead of standing with LEGAL IMMIGRANTS and those that follow our laws. The #FakeNewsMedia and #PaloAltoMafia are trying to control what you see and how you think. STOP THE CARAVAN!”

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