Elizabeth Warren @ewarren Refusing to catalogue paid political ads because the Bloomberg campaign

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3. I don't think she knows how this works.

Facebook has sponsored ads. They don't get paid unless sponsored ads are boosted (meaning someone pays to put them at the top of feeds, in prominent places, etc.). Only boosted ads go in the Ad Library, so the fact they won't put non-boosted ads there fits their normal policy.

The article linked explains it.

"Facebook will allow influencers to produce sponsored content for political campaigns so long as the posts are clearly identified as ads, the company announced on Friday.

Before Friday, Facebook didn’t have any guidelines for influencers who create sponsored content for politicians and political campaigns. But after Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign was found to have paid popular Instagram meme pages for posts, Facebook decided to allow these paid political partnerships.

Sponsored political content will not be placed in Facebook’s political Ad Library unless the creator pays to boost their posts, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed to The Verge. Facebook does not receive any money for sponsored posts unless they are boosted."

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/14/21137719/facebook-bloomberg-memes-influencer-campaign-ads-election-2020