{"id":1006436,"date":"2026-05-02T08:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006436"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:55:14","slug":"meta-faces-us-lawmaker-scrutiny-over-removal-of-lawyer-ads-for-social-media-addiction-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/02\/meta-faces-us-lawmaker-scrutiny-over-removal-of-lawyer-ads-for-social-media-addiction-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta faces US lawmaker scrutiny over removal of lawyer ads for social media addiction cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u200cletter to \u2060CEO \u2060Mark Zuckerberg. <\/p>\n<p>Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn and Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar wrote a letter to Zuckerberg criticizing his company&#8217;s choice to purge the ads from its platforms after Axios first reported \u2060it and \u200cMeta confirmed it. The attorneys were trying to recruit new \u2060plaintiffs for ongoing lawsuits over social media addiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u200cletter to \u2060CEO \u2060Mark Zuckerberg. Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn and Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar wrote a letter to Zuckerberg criticizing his company&#8217;s choice to purge the ads from its platforms after Axios first reported \u2060it and \u200cMeta confirmed it. The attorneys were trying to recruit new \u2060plaintiffs for ongoing lawsuits over social media addiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006460,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006436\/revisions\/1006460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}