For months, Facebook has faced continuous blowback because of its decision never to fact-check political ads.

However, this week, Facebook is facing a new critique of the ad policy: This challenge is “factually inaccurate advertisements which suggest negative health effects of Truvada PrEP,” according to the letter published Monday on GLAAD’s website.

 Over 50 groups signed the letter, which included in LGBTQ advocacy, health care, and HIV/AIDS prevention, including three groups that directly adviseFacebook on LGBTQ issues: your Rights Campaign, GLAAD, plus the Trevor Project.

At issue is various ads powered using law firms on Facebook the fact that the letter says contain false details about the HIV-prevention drug Truvada.

Truvada has been shown to be highly effective in the show and then in federal testing.

The ads that have lived viewed a lot of times intended to recruit gay and bisexual men who take Truvada. Overall the law and regulations firms running these ads claim the medication has harmful side effects and therefore are in search of Truvada users to join lawsuits from the drug’s maker, Gilead Sciences.

The ads are “deterring at-risk HIV negative people from the leading drug that blocks HIV infections,” the letter says.

Though GLAAD and other groups have pushed Facebook to remove the ads “for months,” according to The Washington Post, the social media giant has refused to do it. The letter is undoubtedly a work to bring public attention to the ads and also their probably dangerous impact.

It’s the most a direct call to action, with exact demands.

It demands that Facebook and Instagram “immediately remove the advertisements,” that Facebook’s advertising policy described around ads that incorporate propaganda, and that the company reviews its current ad policies.

A Facebook representative told Business Insider that it would be was “examining strategies to improve,” but persisted ads don’t violate the platforms’ ad policies, “nor have they been rated false by third-party fact-checkers.”

The corporation did reportedly call HIV patient advocate Peter Staley on Monday, according to a report inside the Washington Blade. Staley declared that Facebook’s director of external affairs, Lindsay Elin, contacted him to say the discussion was ongoing.

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