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Thousands of UK political ads missing from Facebook archive searches

By Elizabeth Culliford on Dec 11, 2019 1:20PM
Thousands of UK political ads missing from Facebook archive searches

Facebook unsure why campaign transparency data missing.

Thousands of UK political ads went missing from Facebook's searchable advertising database on Tuesday, hampering researchers' ability to track political ads two days before Britain's general election. Facebook's ad library, which it launched in the UK in 2018, is a public tool for users to track ...

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