Meta should not have removed advertisements from attorneys seeking clients that claim they were harmed by social media platforms, two U.S. senators said on Friday in a ‌letter to ⁠CEO ⁠Mark Zuckerberg.

Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn and Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar wrote a letter to Zuckerberg criticizing his company's choice to purge the ads from its platforms after Axios first reported ⁠it and ‌Meta confirmed it. The attorneys were trying to recruit new ⁠plaintiffs for ongoing lawsuits over social media addiction.

Meta, Google, Snapchat and TikTok are facing thousands of lawsuits accusing the companies of designing platforms that are fueling a youth mental health crisis. The removal of the advertisements is "nothing ‌more than an attempt to preserve a harmful business model at all costs," the senators wrote ⁠in the letter.

Blackburn is running for governor in Tennessee and often touts her work ​on social media regulation to voters. Klobuchar is running for governor of Minnesota. Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.