Facebook drops Trump reelection ads after Pelosi cites census confusion

Facebook on Thursday began taking down ads for the reelection campaign of President Donald Trump that direct people to a survey labeled a census, hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said people would confuse it with the once-a-decade head count.

Facebook said in a statement that it was enforcing its policies to prevent confusion over the 2020 census, which begins next week for most people.

There are policies in place to prevent confusion around the official US. Census and this is an example of those being enforced,” the Facebook statement said.

Earlier in the day, Pelosi had called the survey sponsored by the Trump reelection campaign, an absolute lie.” A lie that is consistent with the misrepresentation policy of Facebook,” Pelosi said.