Posted by on December 24, 2019 4:32 am
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) runs recruitment ads on Facebook and Instagram, but never for very long. From July 2018 through August 2019, the social networks removed all of them. The reason? The promotions ran without a disclaimer meant for political ads.

By declining to add the disclaimer to its ads, DHS effectively said that the agency’s recruitment isn’t a political issue. By removing the ads for running without the tag, Facebook and Instagram seemed to assert it was.

But in response to a Daily Beast inquiry about the take-downs, a Facebook spokesperson said the ads were removed by mistake and did not need a disclaimer—raising new questions about the accuracy of its filtering efforts.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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