{"id":205771,"date":"2019-07-03T14:22:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T19:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=205771"},"modified":"2019-07-03T14:30:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T19:30:26","slug":"facebook-ban-pro-life-ads-ireland-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/facebook-ban-pro-life-ads-ireland-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg admits Facebook chose to ban foreign pro-life ads in Ireland before abortion vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Mark Zuckerberg hit the stage at the Aspen Ideas Festival on June 26, 2019, he admitted<\/a> what was widely already understood to have occurred<\/a>: Facebook had blocked American pro-life groups from advertising in Ireland leading up to the country’s referendum vote on abortion. Last year’s vote landed in favor of legalizing abortion in the previously pro-life country.<\/p>\n

“During [Ireland’s] election, leading up to that referendum, a bunch of pro-life American groups advertised… to try to influence public opinion there,” said Zuckerberg. “And we went to the Irish and asked folks there, ‘well how do you want us to handle this? You have no laws on the books that are relevant for whether we should be allowing this kind of speech in your election, and really this doesn’t feel like the kind of thing a private company should be making a decision on.”<\/p>\n

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