00:26The Guardian’s Julia Carrie Wong reports from San Francisco:Facebook has blocked a Donald Trump campaign advertisement that promoted a false conspiracy theory about Joe Biden and Ukraine. The company said it took the ad down because it violated Facebook’s policies, but not because the 30-second video spot is misleading. The video spot, which can be viewed on YouTube here, falsely claims that Joe Biden “promised Ukraine a billion dollars if they fired the prosecutor investigating his son’s company”. Photograph: The GuardianFacebook has faced criticism in recent days over its policy not to apply fact-checking to political ads. Versions of the ad were viewed by more than 1m Facebook users before they were taken down, according to data from the Facebook political ad archive.

Source: The Guardian October 02, 2019 13:34 UTC