Thousands of UK political ads go missing from Facebook database

Thousands of political s of UK went missing from Facebook's searchable vertising database on December 10. It hampered researchers' ability to keep a tab on political s just two days prior to Britain's general election. library of UK was started in UK in 2018. It is a public tool for users to track political vertising on platform.  problem was first reported by an international media ncy that affected s of ruling Conservative Party,   Brexit Party, and Liberal Democrats. It was t immediately clear that if any Labour Party s were affected.

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Facebook said bugs have been fixed

Facebook released a statement and said that all errors have been fixed and all affected s are w back in s library. A spokesperson also confirmed that many s in US were also affected. Facebook’s library plays a major role in elections as it has been a cornerstone of social media giant’s efforts to be more transparent. researchers claim that it is bly maintained and has limitations to provide detailed targeting data. Tristan Hotham, a research consultant with Who Targets Me, a watchdog that tracks digital political vertising called 's effective disappearance a huge failure.

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s appeared to be searched by ID number

He said that a researcher expects to go back and check data but does t expects library to lose all its data suddenly. According to reports, some s appeared to be searched by ID number of original but t by basic method of searching for names or keywords. social media companies have been sharing more information about political vertising after  U.S. intelligence ncies found that Russia influenced American voters with social media content during 2016 elections. Russia has denied allegations.

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