Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by danpalmer on Friday March 29, 2019 @01:09PM (#19523532)

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 site then resets to political ads... but with more results showing.

It seems there are a lot of bugs with this.

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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by jMyles on Saturday March 30, 2019 @07:52AM (#19528958)

> political only ads

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

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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by axpence on Sunday March 31, 2019 @01:27AM (#19534064)

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.

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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by antpls on Sunday March 31, 2019 @04:55AM (#19534561)

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.

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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by envy2 on Friday March 29, 2019 @01:10PM (#19523549)

You have to change the country in the top right.

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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by danpalmer on Friday March 29, 2019 @01:46PM (#19523903)

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

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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by danpalmer on Saturday March 30, 2019 @10:13AM (#19529473)

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

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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by simlevesque on Friday March 29, 2019 @01:48PM (#19523919)

Do you know why Canada is not present ?

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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by doctorRetro on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:00PM (#19524023)

It's there, but further down. The list goes Austria to United States, then Afghanistan to Zimbabwe... for some reason. Canada is in the second block. Again, for some reason.

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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by BartBoch on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:06PM (#19524071)

The beauty of UX. Or lack of it.

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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by epicide on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:22PM (#19524196)

Things like this always remind me of this awesome talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVyFio8gw4

The example starting at 9:45 especially relates.

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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by mindgam3 on Friday March 29, 2019 @03:52PM (#19525007)

FYI, there is a neat trick for deep linking directly to timestamps on youtube, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVyFio8gw4&t=9m45s

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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by AareyBaba on Friday March 29, 2019 @05:33PM (#19525863)

or right click on the video and "Copy video URL at current time"

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