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Yang Says Facebook Should Vet Political Ads: Campaign Update
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Andrew Yang, the tech entrepreneur seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said Monday that Facebook Inc. should be accountable for false political advertising.
Yang told a group of reporters and editors at an event hosted by the Washington Post that the giant social media platform should “treat those things like the cable networks do.” Some networks have refused to run Trump campaign commercials that mischaracterize former Vice President Joe Biden’s role in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor.