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10 GB of FB Election Ads & Data Released (13)


05-11-2018 05:20 AM #1 tijn (Moderator)
10 GB of FB Election Ads & Data Released

Havent had time to look through it - but it was released earlier. Its not in an easy format but sure someone on the interweb will turn this into a nice database.

Will update this post as this develops.

UPDATES

12 May: A friend just shared this site with me - easiest way to browse the ads: https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/russian-ads/

Example of data in the dump

Ad Image



Meta Data



The full data

Summary

https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/facebook-ads/

Ad data

https://democrats-intelligence.house...rtisements.htm


05-11-2018 05:31 AM #2 mitchell (Member)

This is amazing.


05-11-2018 05:34 AM #3 erikgyepes (Moderator)

Nice, but they could do really better than PDFs :-)


05-11-2018 05:59 AM #4 tijn (Moderator)
10 GB of FB Election Ads & Data Released

Lol yeah - but im pretty sure "the people" will turn it into a dataset soon

Keep an eye on this guy

https://twitter.com/VickerySec/statu...87238485798913


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05-11-2018 06:29 AM #5 Mr Green (Administrator)

They really should of signed up for STM before launching those ads. Their ad creation and targeting skills were weak sauce!


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05-11-2018 06:37 AM #6 tijn (Moderator)

Yeah so far ones I looked at are all shit -

I suspect the good ads running during the elections were affiliates making some dosh. Unfortunately those wont be in this Dump.

Or the government kept the good ones for their own little swipe file


05-11-2018 07:03 AM #7 wakeboarder (Member)

Nice share tijn!

CTR was quite high on those ads. Anyway, I agree with Mr Green ... they need to learn how to use interest targeting better. They have 2 more years to learn.


05-12-2018 09:59 AM #8 tijn (Moderator)

Getting closer to having a database to search. For now its just easy online viewer of the ads by time:

https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/russian-ads/


05-12-2018 10:12 AM #9 mihalis09 (Member)

Unbelievable. They reveal the ad spend...

How is this in any way not towards the opposite direction of privacy protection regulations?


05-12-2018 05:46 PM #10 cmdeal (Veteran Member)

Quote Originally Posted by erikgyepes View Post
Nice, but they could do really better than PDFs :-)
Haha, I am pretty sure that was intentional.


05-13-2018 01:22 AM #11 shadow (Member)

Could be a good source for political arb sites on next elections


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05-14-2018 09:08 PM #12 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by mihalis09 View Post
Unbelievable. They reveal the ad spend...

How is this in any way not towards the opposite direction of privacy protection regulations?
It's not, but I guess exposing the manipulation is of higher priority for now.


05-16-2018 11:00 PM #13 diegovelasco (Member)

Hey!! Thanks for the useful information.


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