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UPDATE: This morning, I reported that @Disney was still advertising on Tucker Carlson, who is using his platform to trash the Black Lives Matter movement

A few minutes ago, Disney told me it will no longer run ads on the program

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UPDATE: This AM, I reported @PapaJohns was still advertising on Tucker Carlson

It sent me a statement last nite indicating it had no plans to stop

In a new statement, sent to me moments ago, the company said it will no longer advertise on Tucker Carlson

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UPDATE: This morning, I reported that @WorkWithVari was still advertising on Tucker Carlson, who is using his platform to trash the Black Lives Matter movement

A few minutes ago, Vari told me it does not plan to run any more ads on the program

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1. Facebook is not enforcing its own rules prohibiting ads that promote violence.

This failure may help a Qanon conspiracy theorist become a member of Congress

Sound far-fetched?

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2. Marjorie Taylor Greene is running for Congress in Georgia.

She is a supporter of Qanon, a conspiracy group that thinks "Trump is engaged in a shadowy war against a cabal of global elites...and will soon arrest or even execute top Democrats"

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Last Thursday, I reported Green began running this ad where she cocks a semi-automatic rifle and delivers a message to “ANTIFA terrorists”

Facebook told me the ad violated its rules and took it down.

But by that time it had already been viewed by 50K people in Georgia. Image
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1. Tucker Carlson has used his platform to repeatedly attack & denigrate the Black Lives Matter movement

He has a history of using white nationalist rhetoric

Can corporations say they support Black Lives Matter and sponsor Carlson's show?

4 are trying

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2. @Disney says it stands with "our fellow Black employees, storytellers, creators, and the entire black community"

It has advertised on Tucker Carlson 29x in 2020

I asked Disney if it would continuing advertising with Tucker

They didn't respond

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@Disney 3. Johnson & Johnson (@JNJNews) tweeted "racism in any form is unacceptable" and "Black Lives Matter."

It has advertised on Tucker Carlson 25x in 2020

I asked Johnson & Johnson if it would continuing advertising with Tucker

They didn't respond

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1. On Thursday, I reported to Facebook that Congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene was running an ad encouraging violence against protesters

In the ad, Greene cocks a semi-automatic rifle while she delivers a message to “ANTIFA terrorists”

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2. After I reported it, Facebook took the ad down, but not before it reached 50,000 Georgia voters.

Greene then went on Tucker Carlson to complain about how she was being "censored" by Facebook
3. Now, Greene has a new Facebook ad WHICH WAS APPROVED BY FACEBOOK featuring her appearance on Tucker, INCLUDING THE FULL VIDEO FROM HER FIRST AD

The explicit purpose of the ad is to evade Facebook's rules: "Spread this video far and wide before Facebook censors this video!"
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