Changing href link via API but campaign links to active campaign url instead?

Hi,

I am using the AC API to edit a template and insert updated content in place of placeholders. This is working fine except for some href links when I create the campaign are suffixing “https://roughtrade95928.activehosted.com/admin/” to the url.
The HTML looks like this when I create it in my script and then upload it as a message which then gets attached to the campaign:
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<a href="**www.roughtrade.com/gb/trey-gruber/herculean-house-of-cards**" style="margin: 0; outline: none; padding: 0; color: #000000; display: block; min-width: 100%;"><img alt="" src="https://is5-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music123/v4/d7/c1/0e/d7c10e4f-024e-f772-444c-121d2d6af190/source/1000x1000bb.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; outline: none; width: 200px; opacity: 1; max-width: 100%;" width="200"/></a>

But then when I click on the link from the campaign creator it points me to https://roughtrade95928.activehosted.com/admin/www.roughtrade.com/gb/trey-gruber/herculean-house-of-cards

I have tried lots of different changed including removing and adding the content blocks but to no avail. If anyone can help me, I’ll be very thankful : )
Why is Active Campaign pre-fixing my link???

Kind Regards,
Lawrence

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