Facebook Political Ad Collector

Name: Facebook Political Ad Collector
Rating: 4.4571 (35 reviews)
Author: Tom Cardoso

This extension collects political ads on facebook.

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The Facebook Political Ad Collector is a powerful Chrome extension designed to gather political ads from users' Facebook news feeds. Operated by Cybersecurity for Democracy at New York University, this crowdsourcing tool helps investigative journalists and researchers analyze political messaging and digital advertising tactics on Facebook.

The extension respects user privacy by not collecting any personally identifiable information or tracking which ads appear to which users. Instead, it compiles a database of political ads to facilitate transparency and support in-depth studies of Facebook's advertising landscape. Previously stewarded by Quartz, The Globe and Mail, and ProPublica under the name "Political Ad Collector," this project continues its mission to shed light on political advertising dynamics through collective data gathering.

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Version:

2.2.14 Last updated: 2022-11-14

Version code:

5485478

Creation date:

2017-09-05

Risk:

Permissions:

storage
unlimitedStorage

Size:

530.57KB

Email:

de*****@adobserver.org

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 4,641 ▲ 10

Other rankings

#14 in collection keyword 23

#14 in poll keyword 23

#32 in facebook keyword 51

#36 in policy keyword 18

#66 in ads keyword 76 ▲ 1

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User reviews

Pros

Helps increase transparency and accountability of political ad spending
Good cause with no negative side effects
Clean and curated universe

Cons

Slows down the Facebook News Feed
Often shows regular ads instead of political ads
Inconsistent ad collection experience

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Facebook Political Ad Collector requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

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Facebook Political Ad Collector has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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