Facebook ads are spreading lies about anti-HIV drug PrEP. The company won't act

Advocates fear such ads could roll back decades of hard-won progress against HIV/Aids and are calling on Facebook to change its policies

Since late summer, many LGBTQ+ Facebook users' newsfeeds have begun to display medically incorrect targeted advertising. These ads pertain to Truvada, a one-pill-a-day pharmaceutical that has been demonstrated to reduce the likelihood of HIV transmissions by as much as 99%, making it a key mechanism in the decades-long fight against HIV/Aids.

"Side Effects from taking an HIV Drug "" reads one badly punctuated message, full of random capitalizations. "The manufacturers had a safer drug & kept it secret " They kept selling the dangerous one."