welcome back, presidential candidate senator elizabeth warren ramped up her feud with facebook taking aim with the company s policy on political advertising. warren intentionally published a political ad on facebook on thursday that purposefully included false claims quote, to see if it would be approved. the ad claimed facebook s ceo mark zuckerberg had endorsed president trump s re-election campai campaign. the company has come under fire for allowing politicians to run ads containing falsehoods. in a series of tweets over the weekend, warren wrote this, facebook changed their ads policy to allow politicians to run ads with known lies explicitly turning the platform into a disinformation for profit machine. this week we decided to see just how far it goes. facebook responded saying the federal communications commission quote, doesn t want broadcast companies censoring candidates speech. we agree it s better to let voters, not companies decide. warren fig
where we are really trying to draw the line is with respect to advertising content and using our tools to promote messages i m going to stipulate these are all ads. i want to stipulate that at the beginning. yes. they are all ads. they are being purchased to effect on outcome of an election or voter isn tment or to mislead voters. i d like to ask your colleagues to address this as well. mr. edgette, what does twitter say to those? those ads have no place on twitter. our ads policy addresses those things. if there is inflammatory content that some even would finned to be upsetting that s not the type of ad we want running on twitter. we distinguish between organic tweets which is those that you or i or anyone here can tweet from their phone or computer from advertising. advertising are tweets that are serving to someone who hasn t