A website which glorifies violence and uses imagery suggestive of assassination has launched a paid for online attack ad against Jeremy Corbyn, openDemocracy can reveal.
Despite Facebook’s pledge that there will be transparency around political advertising in the UK election, a paid-for ad branding the Labour leader a “terrorist sympathiser” does not appear in Facebook’s ad library.
The anti-Corbyn advert is promoted by a website called Direct HAF which sells clothing with a mercenary theme. The site’s logo is a skull with a bullet hole in it and it proudly declares itself “comfortable with violence”.
“As General Mattis said 'Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet',” the website says.
