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Elizabeth Warren Calls Out Facebook for Removing Ads in Which Elizabeth Warren Calls Out Facebook

Elizabeth Warren Calls Out Facebook for Removing Ads in Which Elizabeth Warren Calls Out Facebook

by Caleb Howe | Mar 11th, 2019, 10:51 pm 123

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Warren has been blasting Facebook on Facebook for a while now, including blasting the company for having “compromised the personal data of millions of Americans” when posting the live stream of the Senate hearing with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last April. On Monday, Warren blasted them on Twitter in addition to doing so on their own platform, after some of her anti-Facebook content was temporarily taken down.

Three campaign ads, which called for the tech breakup, were removed, each with the message “This ad was taken down because it goes against Facebook’s advertising policies.” After Politico reported on the story, however, Facebook quickly worked to restore them.

Politico’s Cristiano Lima tweeted the story about the takedown, and Sen. Warren retweeted him to further make her case against the company.

Link to tweet

The argument bears a striking resemblance to arguments made by Republican politicians regarding Facebook’s ability to remove or censor content with which they disagree, a complaint on the right that is generally treated like a whiny conspiracy by the left.

Sen. Warren, however, seems to share that sentiment. And she doubled down a few minutes later, retweeting a reply to her comment.