Facebook removes Trump campaign ads: use Nazi symbols
[Global Network Report] After Twitter, Facebook also "started" on Trump. CNN reported that the US social media giant Facebook Inc. said on the 18th that it had removed an advertisement placed by President Trump's re-election campaign on the grounds that it contained symbols used by the Nazis to mark political prisoners. Violation of Facebook’s prohibition against hatred
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The report said that on the 17th, the Trump campaign used an "red inverted triangle" symbol in its advertisement, calling on Facebook users to sign a petition against the "Antifascist movement" (Antifa). Facebook data shows that this campaign ad was viewed nearly 1 million times on the Trump Facebook account page alone.
Nathaniel Grecher, Facebook’s head of security policy, said: “Our policy prohibits the use of prohibited hate groups or hate ideology signs without condemning or discussing the symbol.”
"We saw hatred in the ads, and using this logo anywhere, we will take the same action." Glecher added.
In response to Facebook's move, Tim Murto, director of communications for the Trump campaign, said in a statement that the red inverted triangle used in the advertisement was the symbol used by Antifa, "so this red inverted triangle appears in the Advertising."
"We noticed that Facebook is still using an inverted red triangle emoji, which looks exactly the same, so it's curious for them to only target this ad," Murto added.
CNN said that deleting Trump's campaign ads may exacerbate the tension between the White House and Silicon Valley.
The Antifa organization is a social revolutionary self-defense organization used to fight the far-right forces. Its tradition can be traced back to the militants who resisted Mussolini and Hitler in Italy and Germany a century ago. Radical anti-fascists in the United States were inspired by European groups and founded the “Anti-racism Action” in the late 1980s. The organization is not a national alliance of the United States, but is composed of several associations. The official is not yet clear about how many members of "anti-fascism" are. Their organization and cooperation are loose, and they cooperate with the black protest organization "Black" BLM has cooperation, but "anti-fascism" refuses to communicate and dialogue with other organizations. According to Mark Pitcavaci, an analyst of the American Anti-Defamation League, for some Antifa members, the goal is to "unfold physical confrontation" with white supremacists, "If they can meet white supremacists, they will attack These people fight with them on the street." Earlier, Trump had tweeted to list the organization as a "terrorist organization."