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Facebook said on Thursday that it took down posts and ads run by the re-election campaign of US President Donald Trump for violating its policy against organised hate as part of a broader culling of what the social media giant considers inflammatory racial rhetoric. 

As Al Jazeera reported, the ads showed a red inverted triangle with text asking Facebook users to sign a petition against Antifa, a loosely organised anti-fascist movement.

In a tweet on Thursday, the Anti-Defamation League's CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, said: "The Nazis used red triangles to identify their political victims in concentration camps. Using it to attack political opponents is highly offensive.”

The company said in a statement the ads violated "our policy against organized hate". 
"Our policy prohibits using a banned hate group's symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol," said a Facebook company spokesperson.

Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, defended the posts.

"The inverted red triangle is a symbol used by Antifa, so it was included in an ad about Antifa," said Murtaugh.