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Facebook ad policy challenged by false claim Republican Graham backs Green New Deal

The new ad comes days after Green New Deal champion Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on whether his site would allow such an ad.

Facebook has drawn criticism over its ad policy from Democratic candidates running in the 2020 presidential election such as former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Facebook spokesman Tom Channick said that since the new ad came from a political action group, rather than a politician, it was eligible for review by the companys third-party fact-checking partners.

Senator Grahams office said it was aware of the ad and confirmed the senator opposes the Green New Deal, a proposal championed by Ocasio-Cortez that would eliminate U.S.

Adriel Hampton, treasurer of the group behind the ad, The Really Online Lefty League, said he came up with the idea to draw attention to the problems around false claims in online political advertising.

There appears to be little to nothing to stop serious election manipulation through false advertising, and thats bad for our democracy, Hampton said in an email to Reuters.

Ahead of the November 2020 election, lawmakers have also expressed concerns over the spread of misinformation through manipulated video, particularly deepfakes, which use machine learning to create realistic content where a person appears to say or do something they did not.

He said that he intended the false claim to be obvious to spot by including the claim that Graham endorsed the Green New Deal in the ads text.

While a lot of people think our ad is funny, weve seen a lot of folks taking it at face value, and THAT is alarming, he added.

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