Facebook declines to remove Breitbart from its advertisement network

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Facebook will not remove the pro-Trump Breitbart News website from its network of advertisers, according to an email that Facebook marketing executive Carolyn Everson sent to an activist group.

The liberal activist group Sleeping Giants said on its own Facebook page it had sent an inquiry to Everson asking the company remove Breitbart ads Facebook places throughout the web, because the publication “peddles violent, white supremacist views.”

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