The delivery failure has prompted calls for congressional oversight into how the company manages political advertising and ad delivery. Matthew Yglesias urged House Democrats to hold hearings on the Brown outage as well as a separate blockade involving ads for a documentary about Elon Musk.
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Meta Error Cuts Half of Sherrod Brown Facebook Ads
US Politics20 days ago
A spokesperson for Meta apologized after a technical failure disabled campaign advertisements for several clients, including U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, over a recent weekend. Brown stated in a blog post that half of his campaign's Facebook ads vanished without notice, a glitch he claimed cost the operation "thousands and thousands of dollars" and potentially thousands of votes. Meta's Andy Stone confirmed the error affected multiple advertisers and that Brown's ads have since been restored.
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