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Warren's Ads Calling for its Breakup description: Facebook said it reinstated Elizabeth Warren's ads calling for its breakup after initially taking them down. canonical: https://time.com/5549467/elizabeth-warren-facebook-breakup-ads/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-12T00:54:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:51:59.631Z article:section: Politics og:title: Facebook Removed Elizabeth Warren's Ads Calling for the Breakup of Facebook og:description: The company said it had taken down the ads, but that it was restoring them og:url: https://time.com/5549467/elizabeth-warren-facebook-breakup-ads/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt09722e74d4e0d363/6989468a4ee2622742314269/elizabeth-warren-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5709 og:image:height: 3211 og:image:alt: Elizabeth Warren Holds Organizing Event In NYC og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Facebook Removed Elizabeth Warren's Ads Calling for the Breakup of Facebook twitter:description: The company said it had taken down the ads, but that it was restoring them twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt09722e74d4e0d363/6989468a4ee2622742314269/elizabeth-warren-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Facebook Removed Elizabeth Warren's Ads Calling for the Breakup of Facebook > Sponsored content. 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Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), one of several Democrats running for the party's nomination in the 2020 presidential race, speaks during a campaign event, March 8, 2019 in the Queens borough of New York City. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), one of several Democrats running for the party's nomination in the 2020 presidential race, speaks during a campaign event, March 8, 2019 in the Queens borough of New York City.Drew Angerer—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Mar 12, 2019 12:54 AM UTC Facebook removed ads from Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign that called for the breakup of Facebook and other tech companies — but said it was reinstating them after a [report from Politico](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/11/facebook-removes-elizabeth-warren-ads-1216757) highlighted that the ads were taken down. Warren’s ads picked up the message from the senator’s [recently released plan](http://time.com/5548262/elizabeth-warren-antitrust-amazon-facebook-google/) to target the companies that hold power in Silicon Valley. The plan calls for passing laws that would prevent companies from offering and participating in the same marketplace, and appointing regulators who would reverse “illegal and anti-competitive tech mergers.” “Three companies have vast power over our economy and our democracy. Facebook, Amazon and Google,” the ads read, according to [Politico](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/11/facebook-removes-elizabeth-warren-ads-1216757). “We all use them. But in their rise to power, they’ve bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit and tilted the playing field in their favor.” Politico [reports](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/11/facebook-removes-elizabeth-warren-ads-1216757) that a message appeared on three ads that said, “This ad was taken down because it goes against Facebook’s advertising policies.” Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a statement to Politico, the company said it had taken down the ads, but that it was restoring them. “We removed the ads because they violated our policies against use of our corporate logo,” a Facebook spokesperson said. “In the interest of allowing robust debate, we are restoring the ads.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5549467/elizabeth-warren-facebook-breakup-ads/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5549467/elizabeth-warren-facebook-breakup-ads/"},"headline":"Facebook Removed Elizabeth Warren's Ads Calling for the Breakup of Facebook","datePublished":"2019-03-12T00:54:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:51:59.631Z","description":"The company said it had taken down the ads, but that it was restoring them","url":"https://time.com/5549467/elizabeth-warren-facebook-breakup-ads/","keywords":["facebook","Tech","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt09722e74d4e0d363/6989468a4ee2622742314269/elizabeth-warren-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt09722e74d4e0d363/6989468a4ee2622742314269/elizabeth-warren-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Elizabeth Warren Holds Organizing Event In NYC","caption":"Elizabeth Warren Holds Organizing Event In NYC","creditText":"Drew Angerer—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/facebook/","name":"facebook"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5549467/elizabeth-warren-facebook-breakup-ads/","name":"Facebook Removed Elizabeth Warren's Ads Calling for the Breakup of Facebook"}}]}] ```