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In October and November 2019, we received multiple inquiries from readers about the authenticity of what appeared to be a sponsored Facebook post published by the 2020 presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. The ad took the form of a blog post with the headline Mark Zuckerberg Just Endorsed Donald Trump and appeared to have been shared by the official Elizabeth Warren Facebook page, along with the following message: The ad really was published by Warren's official campaign, but it was a kind of stunt — specifically designed to highlight and protest the ability of political campaigns to include false or misleading content in paid political advertisements on Facebook. Warren later explained the stunt on Facebook and in a Twitter thread in which she wrote: We intentionally made a Facebook ad with false claims and submitted it to Facebook’s ad platform to see if it’d be approved. It got approved quickly and the ad is now running on Facebook. The web page that accompanied the post on Facebook actually directed those who clicked on it to a petition hosted by Warren's campaign website. The petition invited people to sign their names to a plan to break up the biggest tech companies. Warren's campaign did indeed publish a Facebook ad with a headline that read Mark Zuckerberg Just Endorsed Donald Trump, and whose first line included the claim Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook just endorsed Donald Trump for re-election. However, the very next sentence in that ad made it clear the claim was false and not intended earnestly, and Warren subsequently published a series of posts on Facebook and Twitter, explaining that the endorsement ad was a stunt or protest specifically designed to criticize the fact that politicians and political campaigns could typically pay Facebook to promulgate misinformation.
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