Facebook Removes Trump Ads With Nazi Iconography

Screenshot: FacebookMeasured against its peers, Facebook has been particularly soft on Donald Trump and his administration’s penchant for spewing violent rhetoric, misinformation, and outright lies. It seems, after no shortage of pressure, the social media company has found where it draws the line for a sitting president: the extraordinarily low bar of invoking symbols used in Nazi concentration camps.These ads—an estimated 88 of them, according to Media Matters—asked for Facebook users to “stand with your President and his decision to declare ANTIFA a Terrorist Organization.” First of all, no such designation exists under the current law, but we already knew the gooey center of Trump’s mind palace has no grasp of how government functions. More importantly, these ads were all appended with a red, inverted triangle.While not as immediately familiar in its affiliation to the Nazis
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