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FB bans news outlet from buying Trump-supporting ads
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IANS | 24 Aug, 2019
Facebook has banned conservative news outlet and US President Donald
Trump supporter The Epoch Times from buying ads on its platform for
violating its policies.
The Epoch Times spent $2 million on
Facebook ads supporting Trump and conspiracy theories about his
political enemies, The NBC News reported on Friday.
"Over the
past year, we removed accounts associated with The Epoch Times for
violating our ad policies, including trying to get around our review
systems. We acted on additional accounts today and they are no longer
able to advertise with us," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement.
The
Epoch Times pushed ads under names such as "Honest Paper" and "Pure
American Journalism", bypassing Facebook's political advertising
transparency rules.
A recent NBC News probe revealed how The
Epoch Times had evolved from a non-profit newspaper "into a conservative
online news behemoth that embraced President Donald Trump and
conspiracy content".
Since 2016, The Epoch Times' revenue more
than doubled, and the reach of its online content zoomed past that of
every other news organisation, attracting billions of views across its
platforms.
The news outlet spent $1.5 million on more than 11,000 Trump-friendly Facebook ads within the last year.
Journalist Judd Legum spotted for the first time how several ads from The Epoch Times were in violation of Facebook's policies.
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