Is the customer always right? Trump bashes Facebook but is its top advertising client

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President Trump spent $12.5 million on Facebook advertising during the past 15 months, making him the top political advertiser despite his frequent attacks on the platform for bias.

Although spending on the site is otherwise dominated by liberal causes, the Trump 2020 campaign generated as many as 2.8 billion ad impressions, enough for every American to see 12 paid-for adverts, according to analysis by CompariTech of Facebook’s own data.

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