Friend -- I wanted to make sure you saw this email. The pressure
is mounting on Facebook to stop allowing politicians to lie in their ads,
and we need to keep it up. [ [link removed] ]Will you sign our petition calling for
Facebook to drop the "Trump Exemption"?

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Dear Friend, 

After Democrats announced impeachment hearings, Donald Trump ran $1.6
million in Facebook ads that were chock full of lies.(1)

Due to a major policy change at Facebook, Trump can and will continue to
run these misleading ads and spread false information.(2)

Facebook has folded to public pressure before, so we need to use the same
grassroots influence to get the company to drop its pro-Trump policy. The
stakes are just too high to let Facebook give free rein to politicians to
spread misinformation.

[ [link removed] ]Facebook is undermining our elections by allowing Trump to push
conspiracy theories and promote nationalist propaganda. Will you sign our
petition calling for Facebook to drop the "Trump Exemption"?

It is considered common knowledge that Facebook's policies assisted Trump
in winning the election in 2016. The social media giant allowed Cambridge
Analytica to scrape data from millions of profiles that was used to
manipulate voters.(3) And when thousands of fake profiles created by
foreign bots posted misinformation about Hillary Clinton, Facebook looked
the other way.(4)

The uproar following the discovery of the Cambridge Analytica scandal was
fierce, and Facebook changed its policies on advertisements, requiring
stricter verification and vetting.

But now, Facebook has given politicians an exemption, allowing Trump to
continue spreading his lies to millions of users. And the change came
after Zuckerberg had a private meeting with Trump in the White House.(5)

In just the last month, Trump has run ads on Facebook that television
stations refused to air because of how false they were. One ad claimed Joe
Biden promised Ukraine $1 billion to fire their prosecutor general.
Another claimed impeachment would invalidate the 2016 election.(6)

Zuckerberg didn't just meet with Trump -- he has been having dinner with
Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro, notorious peddlers of right-wing hate and
conspiracy. Zuckerberg has also said explicitly that a Warren presidency
would ruin Facebook and he’d do anything possible to fight it.(7)

We can't let Facebook swing another election. Will you join our call for
Facebook to rescind the "Trump Exemption"?

[ [link removed] ]Click here to sign our petition calling for Facebook to drop the “Trump
Exemption.”

Gabby, along with Analeeza, Brian, Caitlin, Deepthi, Diego, Eddie, Jay,
Lindsay, Mary, Molly, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage team)

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