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Why YouTube Won’t Ban Trump’s Misleading Ads About Biden

Why YouTube Won’t Ban Trump’s Misleading Ads About Biden

Why YouTube Won’t Ban Trump’s Misleading Ads About Biden

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

December 6, 20198m 7s

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Show Notes

The online political advertising wars rage on. In late September, Facebook pleased almost no one when it announced that it would exempt posts by politicians, including ads, from its fact-checking system. Almost as if on cue, a few days later the Donald Trump reelection campaign dropped an ad full of conspiratorial claims about Joe Biden. When the Biden campaign requested that Facebook take down the ad, the company declined.

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