The Texas Attorney General's Office sued the Harris County clerk Thursday for promoting get-out-the-vote ads it described as "racially discriminatory" because they targeted Black, Latino and Asian voters while excluding "European ethnicities." The lawsuit asks a Harris County district judge to order the social media ads to be pulled or reconfigured to remove all identifiers targeting voters along racial and ethnic lines.

The lawsuit argues that ads on Meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram included tags that intentionally directed them toward users with African, Asian and Latino-related interests and backgrounds.

The listed tags included African-American literature, Latin music, Hispanic kitchen, East Asia, 27 different countries and several foreign cities, including Madrid and Bangkok.