A national anti-abortion group is accusing Facebook of banning two ads centered on the abortion stance of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris.
“The national pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) is calling foul today after Facebook banned two of its ads exposing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s support for late-term abortion in the key battleground states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, based on a factually incorrect third-party ‘fact check,’” the Susan B. Anthony List posted on its website Friday.
The ads in question label Biden and Harris as “extreme” on abortion and supporting the practice “up until the moment of birth.”
“Big Tech and the media are teaming up to run interference for the Biden-Harris campaign on what is a losing issue for Democrats – their shameful support for abortion on demand through birth,” SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement.
Dannenfelser continued: “Our ad makes the same factual argument Vice President [Mike] Pence made about the Biden-Harris record in support of late-term abortions during the vice presidential debate, an argument Kamala Harris didn’t bother refuting herself. Our argument is also backed by the Democratic Party platform, which flatly calls for no limits on abortion.”
“Wow. @TheDispatch colluded with Big Tech to censor @SBAList pro-life ads,” Claremont Institute fellow Jon Schweppe tweeted Friday.
Here’s @TheDispatch‘s blatantly false fact check.https://t.co/86Pw8KkpjQ
— Jon Schweppe (@JonSchweppe) October 16, 2020
Dannenfelser added that Facebook apologized to the group in 2018 for incorrectly censoring a video.
Late Friday, the Dispatch apologized and retracted its fact check, saying that it was published in error. A representative from Facebook told the Washington Examiner that it is working to reinstate the ads.
