SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc is temporarily banning a Republican political action committee, the Committee to Defend the President, from advertising after it repeatedly shared content that was deemed false by external fact-checkers, the social media company said on Thursday.
The committee's Facebook page, which has almost 1 million"likes," has had four"false" or"partly false" fact-checking labels attached to content since the start of July. Committee chairman Ted Harvey said in a statement the group would not be"silenced by 'woke' Silicon Valley elites" and would reallocate its Facebook budget to other platforms.
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