{"id":1300075,"date":"2022-02-15T15:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T20:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1300075"},"modified":"2022-02-15T15:23:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T20:23:07","slug":"facebook-blocks-republican-senate-candidate-jim-lamons-super-bowl-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-blocks-republican-senate-candidate-jim-lamons-super-bowl-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Blocks Republican Senate Candidate Jim Lamon\u2019s Super Bowl Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffacebook-blocks-republican-senate-candidate-jim-lamons-super-bowl-ad%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1300075&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Facebook is blocking Republican Arizona Senate candidate Jim Lamon\u2019s campaign ad featured during the Super Bowl, citing its rules against promoting the sale of firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Lamon\u2019s campaign attempted to run several Facebook ads showing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kL-AYz9EG-o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> of Lamon squaring off with actors representing President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly in a parody of Western gunfights. The ads, which ran during the Super Bowl, include a scene in which Lamon shoots the weapons out of the hands of Biden, Pelosi and Kelly.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/h4>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Facebook pulled the campaign\u2019s ads after they had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ads\/library\/?active_status=all&amp;ad_type=political_and_issue_ads&amp;country=US&amp;id=484763103225115&amp;view_all_page_id=104837258398794&amp;search_type=page&amp;media_type=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">running<\/a> for several days, saying they violated the platform\u2019s policies regarding \u201cweapons, ammunition, or explosives,\u201d an affiliate of the Lamon campaign told the Daily Caller News Foundation. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/27\/glenn-youngkin-facebook-national-rifle-association\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Democrat-Linked Group Pushes Ads Hitting Republican Candidate For Not Being Endorsed By The NRA)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the second time in a month our campaign\u2019s message has been censored by Big Tech,\u201d a representative from Lamon\u2019s campaign said in a statement to the DCNF, referring to an incident in which Yahoo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/yahoo-jim-lamon-ad-lets-go-brandon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rejected<\/a> a campaign ad featuring Lamon saying \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s incredibly disappointing that Facebook has decided to pull the Super Bowl ad but we shouldn\u2019t be surprised given that one of our opponents is embedded in big tech.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7373514\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7373514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot showing Facebook\u2019s decision to reject Jim Lamon\u2019s campaign ad on the grounds that it violates the platform\u2019s advertising policies regarding weapons, ammunition, or explosives. (Screenshot\/Facebook\/Jim Lamon for Senate)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s advertising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/policies\/ads\/prohibited_content\/weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">policies<\/a> on \u201cweapons, ammunition, or explosives\u201d state that \u201cads must not promote the sale or use of weapons, ammunition, or explosives,\u201d which includes \u201cads for weapon modification accessories.\u201d However, Lamon\u2019s campaign ad does not directly promote the sale of any weapons, it merely features firearms.<\/p>\n<p>A review of Facebook\u2019s Ad Library by the DCNF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ads\/library\/?id=1092143624913416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found<\/a> that the social media platform previously allowed other politicians to run ads featuring firearms, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ads\/library\/?id=2830028833961591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including<\/a> Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore, a Nevada gubernatorial candidate who ran an ad for a week in which she brandished a shotgun.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The social media giant has previously prevented conservative candidates and organizations from advertising on its platform, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/03\/facebook-heroes-of-liberty-bethany-mandel-censorship-big-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banning<\/a> conservative children\u2019s book publisher Heroes of Liberty from advertising on the site in late December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Lamon was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2022\/02\/10\/republican-senate-candidate-jim-lamon-assailed-for-gunslinging-ad-against-kelly-biden-pelosi\/6740360001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticized<\/a> by many, including his primary opponent Blake Masters, who called the ad \u201cabsurd and desperate,\u201d over the ad. Masters is backed by conservative billionaire Peter Thiel, a Facebook board member.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst Blake Masters sided with the media elites and the Left against this ad. And then the next day Masters\u2019 allies at Facebook took it down \u2014 this level of censorship is outrageous,\u201d a representative from Lamon\u2019s campaign told the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is blocking Republican Arizona Senate candidate Jim Lamon\u2019s campaign ad featured during the Super Bowl, citing its rules against promoting the sale of firearms.Lamon\u2019s campaign attempted to run several &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}