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Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

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This is missing the ads from the company I work for. We do a lot of Facebook advertising. Is it US only? Edit: The link is to political only ads, although this filtering is not exposed in the UI, and when searching for the company I work for I find similarly named companies that are definitely not political. When editing the URL back to " https://www.facebook.com/ads/library" , and searching, it works, although the s…

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Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

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This is missing the ads from the company I work for. We do a lot of Facebook advertising. Is it US only? Edit: The link is to political only ads, although this filtering is not exposed in the UI, and when searching for the company I work for I find similarly named companies that are definitely not political. When editing the URL back to " https://www.facebook.com/ads/library" , and searching, it works, although the s…

I find it interesting that this tool exists for the Facebook platform and not Instagram. Instagram has a meaningful amount of FB’s ad spend.

Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

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post #92

This is missing the ads from the company I work for. We do a lot of Facebook advertising. Is it US only? Edit: The link is to political only ads, although this filtering is not exposed in the UI, and when searching for the company I work for I find similarly named companies that are definitely not political. When editing the URL back to " https://www.facebook.com/ads/library" , and searching, it works, although the s…

I find it interesting that this tool exists for the Facebook platform and not Instagram. Instagram has a meaningful amount of FB’s ad spend.

I found ads on the website that I saw on Instagram, I believe both Instagram and FB ads are on the website.

an other possibility is that it was an ad submitted on both platforms, and only the one on FB showed up on that website.

Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

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Apparently yoga studios running ads are often blocked for being "political" or of "national importance". Oh dear, facebook, oh dear. https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_t...

Cherry-picked examples of an incredibly complex system failing (when it succeeds 99% of the time) aren't particularly compelling arguments against the system.

At Facebook scale, 1% would potentially mean about 15 millions of daily users are presented misclassified ads.

Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

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There's no way in hell that foreign countries waited until 2016 to test out online propaganda campaigns. Anyone in Congress with half a brain would think to check previous elections for similar evidence of 'meddling'. It's far more likely that online election meddling dates back to MySpace and AOL or earlier.
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