Facebook admitted Tuesday that it mistakenly removed an ad from Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers that called to keep men out of women’s sports.
The Rogers campaign told The Daily Wire that the ad — which slams Rogers’ opponent, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, for supporting trans-identifying men competing against women — was posted to Facebook last Friday before Meta took it down. With just around two weeks until the election, the Rogers campaign repeatedly tried to post the ad, but it was removed by the social media platform three more times over the weekend.
According to the Rogers campaign, Facebook’s parent company initially said the ad was removed for “Unacceptable Business Practices,” but then clarified that the ad was removed “incorrectly” by the tech giant’s “automated review systems.” The ad hits Slotkin over her support for the Equality Act, which…