Social media giant Facebook announced in February that content containing false/false information about all vaccines, including the COVID-19 vaccine, would be removed. However, the company had previously banned “Ads claiming that vaccines are unsafe or unhealthy or will result in death or injury” and “Ads that are not consistent with information provided by health officials (including local health authorities) about vaccines” from the platform before that.
According to the information under the “Vaccination Withdrawal” heading in Facebook’s Legal Content list, only “ads that discuss vaccine legislation” are allowed for vaccines. But the other day, Facebook allowed ads combining anti-vaccine and Nazi Germany. The ads compared the US government’s fight against COVID-19 to the times of Nazi Germany.
Advertisements were given with ugly expressions.
According to the information conveyed by CNN, the ads were broadcast by commercial companies. In one of the advertisements, “I am originally from America, but I am living in Germany in 1941”, in the other the slogan “Make America great again”, which was used as the election slogan of Donald Trump, is “Make hanging traitors” great again. It was changed to ”. Another advertisement compared the introduction of vaccines to genocide.
It turned out that these ads were published on Facebook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in payment. Ride the Wave, the company that posted the second ad, had paid Facebook more than $280,000 for ads since May. The page had less than 10k followers but was reaching millions by paying Facebook.
Next Level Goods, another company that advertises on Facebook, has spent more than $500,000 in advertising since 2019. It turned out that the company regularly posts ads for anti-vaccine t-shirts on Facebook. It was seen that the company took down some related ads.
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