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TikTok allowed ‘Melania’ ads but blocked ‘Musk’ documentary ads over political-content violations

Screenshot of TikTok's ad library showing a paid Melania documentary ad featuring Donald and Melania Trump in Austria, with audience figures of 100,000 to 200,000.
A paid TikTok advertisement for the documentary “Melania” featuring President Donald Trump ran in Austria from Jan. 27-30, 2026, reaching 100,000 to 200,000 unique users, according to TikTok's Commercial Content Library. (Screenshot/TikTok)

TikTok allowed paid advertisements for the documentary “Melania,” featuring President Donald Trump, to reach hundreds of thousands of users in Europe, while rejecting ads for a documentary about Elon Musk over political-content violations, according to company records and reporting by The Hollywood Reporter. TikTok’s public Commercial Content Library does not include U.S. ads, so I […]

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Facebook removes shares of Auschwitz Memorial post

Heinrich Himmler, wearing glasses, inspects a prisoner of war camp in Russia, circa 1940-1941. (National Archives)
Heinrich Himmler, wearing glasses, inspects a prisoner of war camp in Russia, circa 1940-1941. (National Archives)

Today, I reached out to Facebook’s media relations department with questions regarding users’ reports that Facebook has been removing their attempts to share a post from the official page of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The post itself, which remains on the museum’s page, includes a photo of Heinrich Himmler, one of the masterminds of the […]