Facebook appears to be earning its reputation as evil

The Christian County Republican Party is run by Seth McMillan, who you will recall announced he would run against Sen. Andy Manar (D) last week.

The article referenced in the ad is about the ComEd bill. Trouble is, Manar voted against the ComEd bill.

If this was a TV or radio ad, Manar would likely be able to get it taken down. Facebook has been another story. The ad has been running for weeks. Manar even tried running an ad to counter the false GOP ad, but that ad was taken down.

Here’s how Manar described the process to me today…

Our paid ad referencing the fake Christian County Republican ad was approved by Facebook. We simply posted a screenshot of the rollcall of the bill where there is an “N” by my name and a screenshot of the Christian County Republican paid ad. Then about one day into the schedule for our paid ad, Facebook sent us a message saying that our ad violated their policy of paid advertising referencing another paid ad. And then took the step of suspending our ad while the Christian County Republican ad continued.