Facebook Inc is temporarily banning a Republican political action committee, the Committee to Defend the President, from advertising after it ...
Facebook Inc is temporarily banning a Republican political action committee, the Committee to Defend the President, from advertising after it repeatedly shared content that was deemed false by external fact-checkers, the social media company said on Thursday.
"As a result of the Committee to Defend the President's repeated sharing of content determined by third-party fact-checkers to be false, they will not be permitted to advertise for a period of time on our platform," Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said in a statement.The company declined to specify the length of the advertising ban or which posts prompted it.
The committee's Facebook page, which has almost 1 million"likes," has had four"false" or"partly false" fact-checking labels attached to content since the start of July.
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