Yet conservatives have spent the Trump years complaining about censorship in a transparent attempt to get more favorable treatment from the tech companies -- in the same way that they gamed the mainstream media. It’s no surprise that Facebook let Trump’s campaign run over 2,000 ads referring to immigration as an “invasion.”

Facebook’s advertising policies are supposed to prevent exactly this sort of ad. But the Trump campaign and other Republicans got away with it -- and news outlets picked up on the trend only after the El Paso shooter used similar rhetoric.

One reason Trump gets away with this is because Facebook still relies on algorithms to approve these ads even after promising to add human reviewers.