this was a paid advertisement that ran on facebook in october of 2019. it says quote breaking news, mark zuckerberg and facebook just endorsed donald trump for reelection. you re probably shocked. you might be thinking how could this possibly be true. it was not true. neither facebook founder mark zuckerberg nor the company he runs offered any kind of public political endorsement of any of the candidates in 2020 from either party but there it was, in black and white, in a facebook ad on mark zuckerberg s own platform, claiming that he had made this endorsement that he hadn t really made. here was it showing up nevertheless being seen by thousands and thousands and thousands of people even though it was false. reason this ad was allowed to stay up on facebook was because it was paid for by elizabeth warren and her presidential campaign. according to facebook s own