Elizabeth Warren, who is a Democratic presidential candidate, has been playing a game with the social media platform Facebook. This past week, Warren purchased a political ad on the platform. The ad purposefully included untrue claims that Mark Zuckerberg, the platforms Chief Executive Officer and President Donald Trump, we’re teaming up to stimulate Facebook to bring down all misinformation on political ads before the 2020 presidential elections. Beginning on Thursday, the ad will be extensively placed on Facebook. The ad starts by Warren announcing breaking news. The ad goes on to note that Mark Zuckerberg is spearheading President Trump’s re-election. According to reports, neither the Silicon Valley firm nor Mark Zuckerberg has shown or announced their support for any presidential candidate.
Warren says in the ad that people must have been shocked by the message that got them thinking if that was actually true. Ms. Warren, who is a senator from Massachusetts, in a series of tweets notes that she had purposely created an ad with false information because the social media platform had some times back permitted politicians to place ads with bogus claims. Ms. Warren wrote that her team intentionally wanted to witness how far the claims would go. The presidential aspirant regarded Facebook as a disinformation for-profit platform. She also added that the Facebook founder should be held responsible for all the misinformation being spread on the platform.
According to NY Times, Ms. Warren’s actions were triggered by the Trump campaign team, which had recently purchased political ads across the entire Facebook platform. Trump accused Joseph R. Biden Junior, who is a Democratic presidential aspirant of rampant corruption in Ukraine. According to reports, the ad was viewed over five million times.
The ad read that Biden had offered $ 1 billion to Ukrainian officials so that they can aid him in removing a prosecutor who was supervising investigations of an organization that was associated with Hunter Biden. Hunter is the son to former Vice President Joe Biden.
This past week, Biden’s campaign majored on demanding Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter to bring down all those ads. Facebook rejected the call and addressed Biden, saying that it will not bow to his plea. Facebook noted that Trump’s ads will remain on its platform. YouTube and Twitter also remained vigilant to maintain the ads on their platforms. Warren’s ad may give oxygen to her her growing animosity with the globe’s most significant social network platform.
Dil Bole Oberoi
