Facebook on March 5 began taking down ads for the reelection campaign of US President Donald Trump that direct people to a survey labelled a "census”, hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said people would confuse it with the once-a-decade head count.
Facebook said in a statement that it was enforcing its policies to prevent confusion over the 2020 census, which begins next week for most people.
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