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Re:Twitter Will Show Who Pays for Ads and How Much They Spend by JumpCrisscross on Thursday June 28, 2018 @11:05PM (#17422084)
> FB went much farther in that for example they let you go back 7 YEARS in a pages ad history

I am not completely familiar with Facebook's ad platform. Does it really let anyone see, for example, which demographics Procter & Gamble is targeting with a particular Gilette ad? (Or its Gilette brand, generally?)

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Re:Twitter Will Show Who Pays for Ads and How Much They Spend by rock_hard on Friday June 29, 2018 @01:25AM (#17422588)
Yep it does. They tell you exactly why you are seeing a ad.

For political ads you can also go to a page and look up all the ad campaigns they are running, how much money was spend, who was target, what the ad creative was, etc

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Re:Twitter Will Show Who Pays for Ads and How Much They Spend by JumpCrisscross on Friday June 29, 2018 @01:48AM (#17422659)
> They tell you exactly why you are seeing a ad

Pardon me, I meant that anyone should be able to see who anyone else is targeting. Currently, when Terrible Kale Bar® shows me an ad, I can see it's because I liked a post of my Portland friend's. But I can't look at Terrible Kale Bar®'s page and see a list of whom they're targeting.

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