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Thousands Of UK Political Ads Missing From Facebook Archive Searches
Reuters via One America News ^ | December 10, 2019 | Elizabeth Culliford

Posted on 12/10/2019 4:57:02 PM PST by Olog-hai

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 political advertising on the platform.

The problem, first reported by Sky News, affected ads from the ruling Conservative Party, the Brexit Party and the Liberal Democrats. It was not immediately clear if any Labor Party ads were affected.

Facebook declined to answer what caused the issue or when it would be resolved. …

(Excerpt) Read more at oann.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; brexitparty; eussr; facebook; fakebook; libdems; politicalads; tories

1 posted on 12/10/2019 4:57:02 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Just like the US:
Long Live big Brother, Long Live Big Brother ads are all over the place.


2 posted on 12/10/2019 5:03:19 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Olog-hai

FB supports the Labourites.


3 posted on 12/10/2019 5:27:57 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Olog-hai

Bet this one is missing. Funny and powerful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj-YK3JJCIU&feature=youtu.be

Boris Johnson in funny campaign advert


4 posted on 12/10/2019 5:28:34 PM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: MNJohnnie

Wow, Boris has some sharp people on his team.


5 posted on 12/10/2019 5:35:00 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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“It was not immediately clear if any Labor Party ads were affected.”

What a shock


6 posted on 12/10/2019 7:22:28 PM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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