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In the past three days a number of adverts have been taken down from the site, including taxpayer-funded Government-backed adverts flooding Tory targets.

Facebook has removed the adverts paid for by the public purse targeting key swing constituencies.

'We know Facebook was used as a political weapon by Johnson, Cummings and Gove in the Vote Leave illegal campaign'

The social networks says the lawsuit is the first of its kind.

Detective Sergeant Helena Congreve, from Northamptonshire Police, said: “I’m very pleased to see Longhurst and Bourne given custodial sentences for these very serious offences and that two sexual predators are now off the streets and behind bars."

The ads with doctored headlines were viewed between 220,000 and 510,000 times according to Full Fact, an independent charity who work alongside other organisations on Facebook's Third Party Fact Checking programme which discovered the Tory slight of hand.

Waseem Khaliq was convicted of indecent assault and child abduction as part of Operation Stovewood - an investigation into allegations of child sexual exploitation between 1997 and 2013

The latest spending figures come after the Conservative Party was accused of misrepresenting a BBC News article in a misleading Facebook advert.

A page had made remarks detrimental to Arabs but the Israeli PM blamed a staffer for the post.