WMATA to add disclaimers to ads amid controversial campaigns

Metro is adding disclaimers to ads in its system as a controversy playing out in posters across the rail system pushes buttons about Mideast politics and religion.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said it is adding a line of text distancing itself from all new “viewpoint” ads that reads: “This is a paid advertisement sponsored by [sponsor].The advertising space is a designated public forum and does not imply WMATA’s endorsement of any views express.”