Elizabeth Warren’s troll game is pretty strong. In an attempt to prove the pitfalls of Facebook’s policy exempting ads by politicians from third-party fact-checking, the Democratic senator and presidential candidate intentionally lied in a series of new Facebook ads just to see if the platform would approve them.
And it did. Warren’s ads specifically make false statements about Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
“Breaking news: Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook just endorsed Donald Trump for re-election,” one of the ads read, above a photo of a recent meeting between Zuckerberg and the president. “You’re probably shocked, and you might be thinking, ‘how could this possibly be true?’ Well, it’s not.”