{"id":655361,"date":"2021-08-17T15:51:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=655361"},"modified":"2021-08-17T15:51:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:51:33","slug":"facebook-removes-campaign-ad-over-link-to-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-removes-campaign-ad-over-link-to-fox-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Removes Campaign Ad Over Link to Fox News"},"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\">18<\/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-removes-campaign-ad-over-link-to-fox-news%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=655361&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--><div readability=\"29.473684210526\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Georgia congressional candidate criticized Biden&#8217;s Afghanistan policy in ad<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3864.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1172921208_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1172921208_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1172921208_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/santi-ruiz\/\" title=\"Posts by Santi Ruiz\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Santi Ruiz<\/a> \u2022 August 17, 2021 3:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"109.47407912688\">\n<p>Facebook on Monday removed a campaign ad that criticized President Biden&#8217;s Afghanistan policy, suggesting the post violated Facebook rules by linking to a Fox News article.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said the post violated its advertising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/policies\/ads\/prohibited_content\/low_quality_or_disruptive_experiences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">policy<\/a>, which prohibits ads that link to &#8220;low-quality&#8221; websites, which it describes as having many ads, aggressive popups, or &#8220;unexpected experiences.&#8221; The Fox article contains few ads and does not appear to meet any of the &#8220;low-quality&#8221; standards Facebook describes.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rich McCormick, a Marine veteran and Georgia congressional candidate, shared the ad, which criticized Biden for doing &#8220;a huge disservice&#8221; to the U.S. military and Afghan allies. The ad linked to a Fox News Pentagon correspondent&#8217;s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/taliban-takes-kandahar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece<\/a> on the Taliban insurgency, to which the Associated Press contributed.<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/facebook-removes-campaign-ad-over-link-to-fox-news\/attachment\/image-2-11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1508166\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1508166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-2-3.png\" alt width=\"2048\" height=\"1305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/image-2-3.png 2048w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/image-2-3-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/image-2-3-1024x653.png 1024w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/image-2-3-768x489.png 768w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/image-2-3-1536x979.png 1536w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/image-2-3-1400x892.png 1400w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/image-2-3-736x469.png 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/facebook-removes-campaign-ad-over-link-to-fox-news\/attachment\/image-1-9\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1508169\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1508169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-1-1.png\" alt width=\"992\" height=\"1062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-1-1.png 992w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/image-1-1-280x300.png 280w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/image-1-1-957x1024.png 957w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/image-1-1-768x822.png 768w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/image-1-1-736x788.png 736w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/image-1-1-459x491.png 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether Facebook has an unstated policy that targets Fox News or whether the ad violates a different rule about political advertising. The social media giant has faced recurring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/03\/technology\/facebook-ends-ban-on-political-advertising.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticism<\/a> for its handling of political ads. In October 2020, Facebook took down an ad from a pro-Trump super PAC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/facebook-removes-pro-trump-ad-false-information-claim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a> its allegation that Joe Biden supported defunding the police was &#8220;false information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After publication of this article, a Facebook spokesman told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> the ad was taken down by mistake and has now been restored.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This ad was incorrectly taken down and quickly restored,&#8221; the Facebook spokesman said. &#8220;Our enforcement is never perfect since machines and human reviewers make mistakes, but we&#8217;re always working to improve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCormick&#8217;s press secretary slammed Facebook, saying &#8220;the social media overlords will do whatever it takes to protect their liberal allies in government by censoring content they disagree with.&#8221; McCormick is a former helicopter pilot who reentered active duty with the Navy after medical school to serve as an emergency physician in Kandahar.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s explanation for the ban states, &#8220;Low quality may include ads linking to external landing pages that have a high ad-to-content ratio, lead to an unexpected experience, feature minimal original content, or contain disruptive and low-quality ads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The McCormick campaign told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>&nbsp;that it was given no further details from Facebook but said there are only two possible reasons the ad was removed: Either &#8220;Fox News is considered a low quality landing page by Facebook&#8221; or &#8220;Facebook didn&#8217;t like the content of the post.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over two billion Facebook users see ads on the platform, making it an enticing draw for advertisers. Critics say Facebook, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/amazon-surpasses-10-of-u-s-digital-ad-market-share-11617703200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">receives<\/a> more than a quarter of U.S. digital advertising spending, has too much control over the digital ad space. A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/poll-irs-facebook-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> found that 63 percent of voters say Facebook has too much power.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook this month <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2021\/08\/facebook-falsely-claims-ftc-forced-it-to-disable-nyu-researchers-accounts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disabled<\/a> the accounts of New York University researchers who were studying political ads on the platform, saying it was complying with a Federal Trade Commission order. The FTC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/blogs\/consumer-blog\/2021\/08\/letter-acting-director-bureau-consumer-protection-samuel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejected<\/a>&nbsp;that claim, saying it hoped Facebook was not using the consent order as &#8220;a pretext to advance other aims.&#8221; Multiple senators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/martyswant\/2021\/08\/09\/us-senators-want-facebook-to-provide-more-info-about-data-privacy-and-political-ads-policies\/?sh=4a50dba2d7da\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> on Facebook to explain its decision and to allow more nonpartisan scrutiny of its political ad practices.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/taliban-leaders-used-twitter-and-whatsapp-to-help-capture-kabul\/\">come under fire<\/a> for a slow reaction to widespread use of its messaging app WhatsApp by Taliban fighters. Facebook says it uses non-encrypted data to remove Taliban chats and individuals, but the tool proved essential for the Taliban&#8217;s capture of Kabul, Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 3:45 p.m.:<\/strong> This piece was updated to include comment from Facebook.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Georgia congressional candidate criticized Biden&#8217;s Afghanistan policy in ad  Getty Images  Santi Ruiz \u2022 August 17, 2021 3:30 pm Facebook on Monday &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655361","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\/655361","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655361\/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=655361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}