Broadcasting & Cable: Trump Accused of Using PAC To Evade Facebook Ban

Common Cause, joined by almost two dozen more groups, have called on Facebook to prevent political action committees (PACS) affiliated with suspended accounts–the target is former President Trump–to violate the site’s community standards.

That violation of standards was the specific rationale Facebook gave for suspending Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts.

The groups wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling him that Facebook should not allow the Team Trump page, which is operated by Trump’s Save America PAC, ” to continue running political ads on Facebook, despite the current 2-year ban on the former president’s Facebook and Instagram accounts. …

They said that under campaign finance law, Trump’s PAC is controlled by the former president, so allowing its political ads on Facebook is allowing Trump to use a loophole to evade the ban.

“If Facebook’s content moderation policies for public figures are to have any legitimacy, they must not be so easily circumvented. We urge Facebook to close this loophole and align its content moderation policies with campaign finance law to prevent politicians from using political committees under their control to evade enforcement actions,” said Yosef Getachew, Common Cause media and democracy program director.