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'Sunday Night Football' backlash!!The advertisement aimed to motivate Republican turnout by vilifying a group of migrants walking toward the US southern border, wrongly portraying them as invaders and criminals.
Many viewers were stunned when it aired during "Sunday Night Football," which is one of the most watched programs on television, regularly averaging more than 10 million viewers.
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CNN had previously determined that the Trump campaign's advertisement was racist and declined to sell airtime for it.
On Saturday, Donald Trump Jr. complained on Twitter that CNN "refused to run" the advertisement.
A CNN spokesperson responded in a tweet, saying, "CNN has made it abundantly clear in its editorial coverage that this ad is racist. When presented with an opportunity to be paid to take a version of this ad, we declined. Those are the facts."
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Per CNN:
Facebook has stopped the Trump campaign from running its racist anti-immigration commercial as an ad on the site."This ad violates Facebook's advertising policy against sensational content so we are rejecting it. While the video is allowed to be posted on Facebook, it cannot receive paid distribution,"
Facebook said in a statement Monday afternoon.
The move came shortly after NBC and Fox News said they would stop airing the ad across their networks. CNN had previously determined that the ad is racist and declined to sell airtime for it.The Trump campaign began running the ad on Facebook on Sunday, targeting voters in Florida and Arizona. By Monday morning, it had reached millions of users on the platform.
A Facebook spokesperson said the ad had been allowed to run in error.
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