Man Registers to Run for Calif. Governor Just to Buy False Facebook Ads

A San Francisco man is going to extreme lengths to call out Facebook's controversial policy of allowing politicians to run false ads on its platform. Adriel Hampton, a political activist who runs his own marketing firm in San Francisco, registered as a candidate in California's 2022 gubernatorial election -- not with the primary goal of becoming governor, but so he can run false Facebook ads of his own.

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