Meta faces US lawmaker scrutiny over removal of lawyer ads for social media addiction cases

Meta should not have removed advertisements from attorneys seeking clients that claim they were harmed by social media platforms, two U.S. senators said on Friday in a ‌letter to ⁠CEO ⁠Mark Zuckerberg.

Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn and Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar wrote a letter to Zuckerberg criticizing his company’s choice to purge the ads from its platforms after Axios first reported ⁠it and ‌Meta confirmed it. The attorneys were trying to recruit new ⁠plaintiffs for ongoing lawsuits over social media addiction.