Advocates Ask Facebook to Close Trump ‘Loophole’
Facebook needs to close a “loophole” allowing ex-President Donald Trump to remain a “regular presence” on the platform despite his two-year ban, advocates wrote the company Monday. Common Cause signed the letter with Center for American Progress, Free Press, National…
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Hispanic Media Coalition and others. They criticized the platform for allowing the Team Trump page, run by Trump’s Save America political action committee, to “continue running political ads on Facebook.” They cited Facebook’s reasoning that “groups affiliated with the former president are not barred from posting on Facebook so long as they are not posting in his ‘voice.’” They asked the platform to clearly define “what content it considers to be in the voice of public figures and align its content moderation policies with campaign finance law.” The company didn’t comment.