Facebook said it had taken action against ads run by President Trump's re-election campaign for breaching its policies on hate. The ads, which attacked what the Trump campaign described as "Dangerous MOBS of far-left groups," featured an upside-down triangle.
The Anti-Defamation League said Thursday the triangle "is practically identical to that used by the Nazi regime to classify political prisoners in concentration camps."
"We removed these posts and ads for violating our policy against organized hate. Our policy prohibits using a banned hate group's symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol," Andy Stone, a Facebook spokesperson, told CNN Business.
The hate group to which Facebook was referring in its statement is Nazis, the company confirmed.
The ads targeted the far-left group antifa, calling on Trump supporters to back the President's calls to designate the group a terrorist organization.
Responding to criticism of the ad earlier Thursday, the Trump campaign claimed the red triangle was "a symbol widely used by Antifa."
The campaign pointed CNN Business to several links to poster, sticker, and magnet websites that sell unofficial merchandise designed by their users that contains the symbol. The campaign did not point to any examples of antifa activists wearing the symbol.
The ADL said Thursday that some antifa activists have used the symbol, but it is not particularly common.
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Trump says, “The virus is _fading away.”_ Just like his re-election chances.
cant wait for november
@Curunir Nazi concentration camp badges, primarily triangles, were part of the system of identification in German camps. They were used in the concentration camps in the German-occupied countries to identify the reason the prisoners had been placed there. Triangles are a common Teutonic symbols.
@Eric Rich yes right wing extremists
@F U tds is a made up disease by Trump’s base,so obviously you like fiction
🤞I hope
Bunker Boy is going to be taking _L’s_ for the rest of his life.
Bunker boy? Meanwhile Joe Biden only leaves his house for soup at the Y.
@Mr Friendly you say that like eating hamberders and never working out is a good thing…
@Curunir
Google is your friend
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge
What happens when he wins in November? You gonna be salty as F!
The ones taking any Ls is people who dont believe in the one true Lord! Join my church and know peace and truth!
He’s doing it on purpose. Ask Stephen Miller.
antifa utrecht upside down red triangle on facebook right now. why has facebook not took it down lmao.
Just another day in America
Steven is tRumps events coordinator obviously right?…
@Eric Rich
Antifa probably uses it BECAUSE it was a Nazi symbol. They are anti-fascist, ya know
Steven Miller knows every murderous day of whites over blacks and browns… he’s obsessed with their demise… his vision is in a book… and he wills that book to be a reality… https://www.alternet.org/2017/02/21-facts-explain-exactly-who-stephen-miller/
Bye bye donny bone spurs
It is a red triangle (●__●)
It’s a widely used ANTIFA symbol that Trump had in an anti-ANTIFA add. CNN and the leftist opportunists played you… again. https://antifautrecht.nl
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“Organized hate” ? Trump ? Nah… That can’t be. Not the “very fine people” guy…
This has Stephen Miller’s fingerprints all over it.
@Frank Rivera but his bigotry is greater than his jewish roots.
Rick Vis so are you claiming that the anti-defamation league is wrong?
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It was for freemasons, and jews are getting deported including Miller.
Ugh, his cold greasy fingerprints…
Finally, now take down all the ads that blatantly lie, so all of them.
DRAIN THE SWAMP! DRAIN THE SWAMP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!
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You know he’s winning in November right.
@Curunir it’s a nazi symbol – what don’t you get about it?
Lock him up!
@Curunir you need a source to prove a nazi symbol?
Old Fred T. Was a card carrying member of the Nazi party.
Klan, not Nazi. There was theoretically a difference back then.
Bob James not by much !
He was probably at the Nazi rally at Madison square garden in NYC on February 20th 1939 the Nazis were packed in there screaming hate.
Yes sir a true fact.
About time
They see the tide changing
THE CHAIN TRUMP TRY TO CREATE ALL AROUND AMERICA WILL BE BROKEN LINK BY LINK
That is one of the KKK symbol’s have seen this before. Trump is a MEMBER after all
@socal rocks you are insane and lost touch to reality, sorry.
@socal rocks He could do it everyday, if it was his real intention. So please stop this non sense.
@socal rocks I’m actually kind of curious because an “Emergency order form the DOJ” to stop this book? Like why? I want to know just as much as you, because unlike most people I look at both sides, not just cultist-like behavior that one party is above approach.
The KKK symbol is not upside down. I just search the ADL database and I could not find the alleged racist symbol. If you find it let me know.
Of course. tRump’s dad Marched with the kkk back in the day ,so like father like son !!
Calling Secret Service, “the SS”, now this… Trump showing his true nature with wee trial balloons to prep his people…
Bat Boy the symbol is Antifa’s symbol 🐑
Anonymous liar….because the intelligent communities proved trump was lying AGAIN! Antifa doesn’t exist as a group. But…the soldiers who faught the Nazi’s were anti-fascist. ANY normal person would and should be anti-fascist…or Antifa, otherwise they are like the Nazis which you seem to like. Are you are calling the soldiers on D-Day anti-American? Being anti-fascist is supposed to be the American way of life. Besides the fact that NO intelligent person could or should possibly believe ANYTHING the pathological liar in chief says as he has been proven to have lied over 17,000 times in 3 years. Pathetic and disgusting and vile.
This symbol was used by the NAZI’S. History FACTS! Stop lying. It’s pathetic
@Jake Lamon No, he was “associating” them with the very symbol THEY VOLUNTARILY CHOSE FOR THEMSELVES…👈😏….
Nice try “dweebus”, but you
fool, no one….👈😆….
@Heather Melissa Are you calling
ANTIFA 👈😆👉 an “URBAN LEGEND” ?..
Sorry, juvenile dweeb….👈😆…
You can’t “post” them
out of “existence”….👈😆…
They “exist”, and you are looking
DESPERATE, by trying to say
they don’t….👈😂….
Absolutely on purpose, and another disgrace to the fallen
You know its bad when Facebook actually takes down an advertisement.
Does anyone want to join my religious order? We have cake and orange crush soda. Plus we dont believe in condoms or human intercourse.
Silver Dime… Because it’s a blatant lie and ANYONE intelligent KNOWS that!
I love my President Trump!
I think you should be more concerned with the fact that your president is following the nazi party handbook word for word symbol to symbol.
Zuckerberg had to draw the line somewhere, especially when it harkens back to the holocaust and its imagery.
over the last month an a half….trump has been getting eviscerated….everything that could have gone wrong…has.
Hopefully by Nov he will resemble hamburger.
@David salo You mean Hamberder.
There is one last thing that shall go wrong for him…..he will catch COVID!
@Someone Unknown you guys watch CNN. I feel sorry you
Daniel Cahill You’re watching idiot. Or are you just here to troll? Not good at it are you? Couldn’t even complete a sentence accurately.
No mistake, no error. All intentional.
I bet Stephen Miller had something to do with this. He wanted to provoke his Neo-Nazi supporters.
Am sure that Miller’s JEWISH ancestors who were MURDERED by nazis are all rolling in their graves. I would LOVE to be “present” when he is confronted by his ancestors in the after life….honey
Amazing how quickly these psychopaths in the republican party outed themselves. I guess the one positive side effect of Trump was helping publicly identify the men and women of the republican neo nazi party.
Steve Bannon openly stated he wanted to start a race war. His plant is coming to fruition. It’s disgusting.
Its a race to erase trump, which is a good thing now. He is a hater and a loser.
@Lexy Swope they sure as hell don’t matter when they kill each other
Didnt work out so well for Charlie Manson.
Dumb statement that is purely what is being done by the liberals..Using the floyd incident to push that race war agenda..specifically to cause chaos and make people question their vote in the election..
@Jeff Woods gtfoh
Imagine lying so much even Zuckerberg said aight that’s enough