Facebook OK’s Large Lie-Filled Pro-Trump Ad Buy

Popular Information reports:

Facebook is allowing a major pro-Trump Super PAC, the Committee to Defend the President, to run ads with lies. The Committee to Defend the President, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, is one of the “two biggest non-party outside spenders of this cycle.”

Since Saturday, the Committee to Defend the President is running multiple ads that claim former Vice President Joe Biden is “a criminal who used his power as Vice President to make him and his son RICH.”

This claim is false, according to Facebook’s own fact-checking partners. PolitiFact, which is part of Facebook’s fact-checking program, wrote in September that “Hunter Biden did do work in Ukraine, but we found nothing to suggest Vice President Biden acted to help him.”

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