{"id":2527,"date":"2021-12-04T05:46:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T04:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/12\/04\/facebook-sold-ads-comparing-covid-19-vaccine-to-holocaust-the-mercury-news\/"},"modified":"2021-12-04T05:46:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T04:46:46","slug":"facebook-sold-ads-comparing-covid-19-vaccine-to-holocaust-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/12\/04\/facebook-sold-ads-comparing-covid-19-vaccine-to-holocaust-the-mercury-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook sold ads comparing Covid-19 vaccine to Holocaust &#8211; The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\tTrending:\t\t<br \/>Facebook has sold ads promoting anti-vaccine messages, comparing the US government&#8217;s response to Covid-19 to Nazi Germany, casting doubt on the result of the 2020 election, and even pushing political violence.<br \/>The ads have been run by merchandise companies that have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Facebook over the last few years.<br \/>On Monday, Fox News personality Lara Logan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/30\/media\/lara-logan-fauci-auschwitz-museum-anti-defamation-league\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">caused outrage<\/a> by comparing Dr. Anthony Fauci to a notorious Nazi doctor known as the &#8220;Angel of Death&#8221; \u2014 around the same time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ads\/library\/?id=415100593429688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ads<\/a> were running on Facebook promoting a sweater emblazed with the words, &#8220;I&#8217;m originally from America but I currently reside in 1941 Germany.&#8221;<br \/>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ads\/library\/?id=502928687642069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ad<\/a> compared the rollout of vaccines to the Holocaust \u2014 falsely and ludicrously implying they are part of an attempt to slaughter people on a mass scale.<br \/>The ad was run by a Facebook page named &#8220;Ride the Red Wave.&#8221; Earlier this year the page ran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ads\/library\/?id=190474829638085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ads<\/a> for a t-shirt with the words, &#8220;Make hanging traitors great again.&#8221;<br \/>Facebook has made more than $280,000 from ads run by &#8220;Ride the Red Wave&#8221; since May, according to data reviewed by CNN. The page has fewer than 10,000 followers, but by paying Facebook the people running the page can potentially reach millions of Americans.<br \/>&#8220;Next Level Goods,&#8221; another page, run by a different company, has spent more than $500,000 on Facebook ads since 2019. The company regularly uses Facebook to advertise anti-vaccine t-shirts.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ads\/library\/?id=381945390041153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One ad-buy<\/a> in late August promoted a t-shirt that read &#8220;Proudly Unpoisoned&#8221; next to an image of a syringe. The company paid Facebook approximately $2,500 to reach up to 450,000 Facebook users with the anti-vaccine ad. According to Facebook data, the ads were most viewed by Facebook users in Texas, Florida, and California.<br \/>A spokesperson for Meta, Facebook&#8217;s parent company, said the ads comparing the US Covid-19 response to Nazi Germany, comparing vaccines to the Holocaust, and the ad suggesting the vaccine was poison went against Facebook&#8217;s vaccine misinformation policies.<br \/>However, considering these violating ads ran on its platform, Facebook&#8217;s detection systems seemingly missed them.<br \/>CNN also asked about the ad that read &#8220;Make Hanging Traitors Great Again,&#8221; but Facebook did not say that ad broke its policies.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related left\">\n<h2 class=\"widget-title\" data-curated-ids=\"\" data-relation-type=\"automatic-primary-tag\">Related Articles<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>   \t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2021\/12\/02\/meta-apple-mega-lease-buy-counter-tech-exodus-google-jobs-covid\/\" title=\"Meta, Apple mega leases, huge property deal counter exodus fears\"> \t \t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"> \t\t\tMega deals defy Silicon Valley tech exodus doom-and-gloom\t\t<\/span>  \t\t\t<\/a> \t <\/li>\n<li>   \t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2021\/11\/30\/fremont-tech-complex-facebook-office-buy-college-admissions-scandal\/\" title=\"Fremont tech complex near big Facebook sites lands buyer; seller was jailed in college admissions scandal\"> \t \t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"> \t\t\tBig Fremont tech campus is grabbed by local buyer\t\t<\/span>  \t\t\t<\/a> \t <\/li>\n<li>   \t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2021\/11\/18\/ap-hate-speech-in-myanmar-still-thriving-on-facebook\/\" title=\"AP: Hate speech in Myanmar still thriving on Facebook\"> \t \t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"> \t\t\tHate speech in Myanmar still thriving on Facebook\t\t<\/span>  \t\t\t<\/a> \t <\/li>\n<li>   \t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2021\/11\/15\/ohio-ag-sues-meta-over-facebook-papers-revelations\/\" title=\"Ohio AG sues Meta over &#8216;Facebook Papers&#8217; revelations\"> \t \t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"> \t\t\tOhio AG sues Meta over &#8216;Facebook Papers&#8217; revelations\t\t<\/span>  \t\t\t<\/a> \t <\/li>\n<li>   \t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2021\/11\/09\/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-metaverse-interview\/\" title=\"Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen fears the metaverse\"> \t \t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"> \t\t\tFacebook whistleblower Frances Haugen fears the metaverse\t\t<\/span>  \t\t\t<\/a> \t <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Publicly, Facebook has touted the purportedly positive role it is playing in encouraging Americans to get vaccinated. Guy Rosen, the company&#8217;s vice president of integrity, <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2021\/07\/support-for-covid-19-vaccines-is-high-on-facebook-and-growing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">penned a blog post <\/a>in July rebuking President Joe Biden for alleging that platforms like Facebook are killing people. Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/19\/politics\/joe-biden-facebook\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">later backed away<\/a> from the claim.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/05\/media\/reliable-sources-facebook-researchers-deplatform\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laura Edelson, a researcher at NYU<\/a> who tracks advertising on Facebook, told CNN that Facebook does not manually review all of the ads it sells \u2014 part of the reason why ads that violate its rules are allowed run on the platform.<br \/>Facebook, she said, also appears to have a lighter-touch moderation approach to ads from seemingly commercial pages, like those selling t-shirts, compared to pages associated with political campaigns.<br \/>&#8220;You will find a lot more of the really strong rhetoric printed on a t-shirt much more than you will see in a straight persuasion ad,&#8221; she told CNN.<br \/>The-CNN-Wire<br \/> \u2122 &amp; \u00a9 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.<br \/>Get Morning Report and other email newsletters<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2021\/12\/03\/facebook-sold-ads-comparing-covid-19-vaccine-to-holocaust\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trending: Facebook has sold ads promoting anti-vaccine messages, comparing the US government&#8217;s response to Covid-19 to Nazi Germany, casting doubt on the result of the 2020 election, and even pushing political violence.The ads have been run by merchandise companies that have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Facebook over the last few years.On Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}