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Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

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Post by hobofan »

kriro wrote: post #80

Quicksearch for Germany for some political parties: SPD: 880 adds FDP: 96 adds Grüne: 3 adds Die Linke: 2 AFD: 2 adds CSU: 1 add CDU: 0 adds (?!) Obviously there's a lot of subpages (youth organisations, state organisations) as well but I found it interesting that only one party (or two if you want to count FDP) seems to actively use FB adds linked to their official pages. Will be interesting to poke around in this d…

Would be interesting to see how that changes for the European Parliament election. The offline advertising for that should pop up soon, and maybe at the same time the online ads will too.

Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

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Post by mateo1 »

dontbenebby wrote: post #68
gkcgautam wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got blocked too. Got the following message: Blocked from Searching or Viewing the Ad Archive You have been temporarily blocked from searching or viewing the Ad Archive due to too many requests. Please try again later.

Is it really an "archive" if you can't download the contents at a reasonable rate? (Eg: I wouldn't expect gigabit speeds, but if you're willing to go slow and steady a 500k/1meg a second that should be doable)

That would enforce actual transparency. We can't allow that to happen! Here's how it works: You tells us who you are and what you're looking for, then we'll see what we can show you and what we can't.

Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

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Post by mateo1 »

ada1981 wrote: post #52
bduerst wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The flag is "Related to politics or issues of importance", meaning it's a broad classifier for sensitive issues, not just political ones.

“This ad ran without a disclaimer. After the ad started running, we determined that the ad was related to politics and issues of national importance and required the label. The ad was taken down.”

I'm curious, are they notified when their ads are taken down? Or does facebook do "shadowbanning" themselves? I'd expect them to do it when nation-state interests are involved, but I guess nothing stops them from taking in the money from the regular folk and lying about ad impressions when an ad goes against their interests.

Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

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Post by jMyles »

danpalmer wrote: post #12

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…

> political only ads

Already a designation that is not cognizable in the first place.

Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

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Post by dustindiamond »

melvinram wrote: post #18
Nextgrid wrote: post #6

I have tried this in the UK and it seems to be limited to political ads only - I was not able to find a major brand like O2 (mobile carrier) for example.

It says that right on the page: > Keep in mind, keyword searches return only ads related to politics or issues of importance. You can try your search again and select from the Page results.

What are issues of importance?

What are not issues of importance?

Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

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Post by dustindiamond »

dymk wrote: post #19
ada1981 wrote: post #16

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.

Where did you get your two nines number from?

Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

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Post by dustindiamond »

i_cant_speel wrote: post #60
darkpuma wrote: post #58

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It would only be a matter of time before they started showing ads to paying users too. Pay for a magazine subscription? Magazine is filled with ads anyway. Pay for a cable tv subscription? Filled with ads anyway. Pay for HBO? Get shameless product placement (they claim they don't take money for it, but that doesn't change the substance of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuIJVLrIAZQ ) Pay for netflix? More product…

Yes, but you are purchasing the magazine, movie, or service. If you are paying Facebook specifically to remove ads from an otherwise free product, it's much harder to justify injecting ads anyways. And if for whatever reason they do, you can just stop paying them.

That is why I got rid of my tv antenna and pay for cable television, so I don’t see any ads.

Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

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Post by danpalmer »

danpalmer wrote: post #34
envy2 wrote: post #14

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You have to change the country in the top right.

This did not work. It appears to return the same results as when set to the US. It is saving the country preference though.

I managed to get it to work after manually editing the URLs, although clicking the wrong thing or refreshing the page would reset this.

Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

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Post by bmm6o »

bacondude3 wrote: post #70
rja907 wrote: post #42

Trump has spent around $11M on ads just on Facebook. If you go into the ad details you'll see how he targets different genders, age groups according to states: https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_t...

I think it's even more interesting to see the Democrat side: * O'Rourke $8.4M * Harris $1.6M * Warren $1.3M * Booker $800K * Sanders $685K * Klobuchar $365K * Yang $120K * Buttigieg $10.5K Why is everybody else spending so much less than O'Rourke? Does his campaign actually have that much more money compared to the other campaigns?

O'Rourke just finished a huge campaign for the Senate in November, I assume it's that and not his just-launched presidential bid.

(Disclaimer - I find the site hard to use and maybe it's obvious to someone else that it's not correct)

Re: Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

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Post by [deleted] »

ada1981 wrote: post #57
bduerst wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"National importance" meaning importance inside that nation that the ad is being displayed. Facebook lists the categories here, including health (which a classifier could put yoga under): https://www.facebook.com/business/help/214754279118974?helpr...

Interesting and weird. 🇺🇸

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