Facebook asks Sen. Hyde-Smith for refund, as Mississippi Republican faces runoff against Mike Espy
November 27, 2018 at 13:27 PM EST
Facebook's move came only after a number of other big companies requested a refund of their contributions from Mississippi Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, whose 'public hanging' remarks have been called tone-deaf or worse and invoked Mississippi's ugly history of lynching and suppressing voting rights of African-Americans.