# Center for Business and Human Rights Deputy Director Paul Barrett explains how Facebook's ad policy allows politicians to spread falsehoods

1 School News October 15, 2019 ![The Hill logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/thehill.jpg?itok=sS9uN5h8)>

Excerpt from [The Hill](https://thehill.com/policy/technology/465771-warren-turns-up-heat-over-facebooks-ad-rules) -- “'The policies they’ve announced are an explicit invitation to politicians to spread falsehoods,' Paul Barrett, the deputy director of the New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, told The Hill. 'And that is not something that we ought to applaud.'”

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