Dear Friend,

Donald Trump's presidential campaign has run more than 500 misleading ads
claiming that Democrats are using vote-by-mail to steal the November
election.^1

But despite vowing to protect the 2020 election, Facebook refuses to stop
these dangerously misleading ads.

Facebook is profiting off of Trump's voter suppression, and we're
demanding that the Federal Trade Commission and Congress launch an
investigation and take appropriate action to address Facebook's businesses
practices now.

[ [link removed] ]We can't let Facebook swing another election. Will you donate to help
stop Facebook's profiting from voter suppression?

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It is unfathomable that we’re facing another instance of Facebook's greed
causing trouble for an election.

Four years ago, Facebook looked the other way while Cambridge Analytica
invaded our privacy and scraped our data to run targeted political ads
during the 2016 election.^2 The tech giant made huge profits from false,
inflammatory ads that fed voters misleading information.^3

There was such an uproar that Facebook swore to change its ways before
2020. The social media company changed its rules and claimed they would
block "misleading" ads and block bots.

But then, in 2019, the company made a crucial exception for one of its
biggest ad buyers—the Trump 2020 campaign.^4

Now, as the coronavirus pandemic gets exponentially worse and the CDC is
encouraging voters to use absentee ballots to avoid the polls, the Trump
campaign is making disproven claims that vote-by-mail is an opening for
fraud. These ads could cause untold numbers of people to not exercise
their right to vote.

But all Facebook cares about is claiming the $2 million a week the Trump
campaign spends on ads, not the harm these ads cause.^5

Facebook can't be allowed to assist voter suppression efforts or continue
to run misleading campaign ads. The only way we will stop them is by
mobilizing to force federal regulators and congressional oversight panels
to change Facebook's business model. Will you donate to help put a stop to
Facebook’s greedy, damaging practices?

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For our civil rights,

Robert Cruickshank,
Demand Progress

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Sources:
1. Media Matters for America, "Facebook is letting the Trump campaign
publish at least 529 ads with false claims of voter fraud," [ [link removed] ]May 19,
2020
2. Wired, "The Cambridge Analytica story, explained," [ [link removed] ]accessed July
10, 2020
3. The New York Times, "The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the
Election," [ [link removed] ]September 7, 2017
4. Vox, "Facebook is refusing to take down a Trump ad making false claims
about Joe Biden," [ [link removed] ]October 9, 2019
5. CNBC, "Trump ramps up Facebook ad spend as Biden pulls ahead in polls,"
[ [link removed] ]June 29, 2020
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