Facebook Takes Down Trump Campaign Ads Which Feature Symbol Used By Nazis
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President Donald Trump’s campaign ads have been removed on Facebook after it breached the platform’s policy.
The ad featured an inverted red triangle, which is a symbol used by the Nazis to mark political prisoners in concentration camps. However, the Trump campaign clarified that the red triangle is “an emoji and a symbol used by ANTIFA.”
Facebook’s spokesperson Andy Stone told CNN Business that the post violated Facebook’s policy against “organized hate.”
“Our policy prohibits using a banned hate group’s symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol,” he continued. According to Facebook, the hate group it was referring to is the Nazis.
The symbol was featured on Trump campaign ads that warned of “Dangerous MOBS of far-left groups.” The ad read, “It’s important that every American comes together at a time like this to send a united message that we will not stand for their radical actions any longer. We’re calling on you to make a public statement and add your name to stand with president Trump against ANTIFA.”
The symbol has a troublesome history and according to a Jewish American organization Bend the Arc, the same triangle is used to brand “political prisoners and people who rescued Jews.”
The President of the United States is campaigning for reelection using a Nazi concentration camp symbol.
— Bend the Arc: Jewish Action (@jewishaction) June 18, 2020
Nazis used the red triangle to mark political prisoners and people who rescued Jews.
Trump & the RNC are using it to smear millions of protestors.
Their masks are off. pic.twitter.com/UzmzDaRBup
This is an emoji. 🔻
— Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 & get the APP (@TrumpWarRoom) June 18, 2020
It's also a symbol widely used by Antifa. It was used in an ad about Antifa.
It is not in the ADL's Hate Symbols Database. pic.twitter.com/AY1YRxduf4
NEW: FB removes Trump ads with inverted red triangle.
— Isaac Stanley-Becker (@isaacstanbecker) June 18, 2020
"Our policy prohibits using a banned hate group's symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol.”https://t.co/OE7uHAZWIo
Nothing to see here, just the President running paid ads about his plan to designate his political opposition as terrorists so he can arrest them, using the same exact symbol the Nazis forced their political prisoners to wear. https://t.co/E16WEu56NX
— Lee J. Carter (@carterforva) June 18, 2020
[via Daily Dot, opening image via Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.com]
