Facebook took unprecedented action against the reelection campaign for President Donald Trump, removing multiple advertisements that used Nazi iconography that warned against “dangerous mobs of far-left groups.”
The advertisements, posted by the pages for Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Team Trump, a campaign account, used an upside-down red triangle to rail against Antifa, a scattered collective of antifascist activists that Trump wants to designate as a terrorist group. However, the upside-down red triangle was used in Nazi Germany to identify communists, trade unionists and other targets of Adolf Hitler’s genocidal regime.
The ads, which started running on Wednesday, reached hundreds of thousands of Facebook users before they were removed, according to Facebook’s Ad Library.
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