Some of the ads promised free cash from prominent political figures like Donald Trump and Joe Biden but linked to scams, using AI-generated voiceovers.
Meta approved and later removed some deceptive ads, but failed to prevent similar or identical content from surfacing and new ad networks from emerging.
Over 160,000 deceptive election and social issue ads have appeared across more than 340 Facebook pages, misleading users and signed them up for unwanted charges.
Fox News meteorologist Adam Klotz's page was hacked, leading to deceptive ads using his identity, which he was unaware were running until contacted.
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