This report contains aggregated statistics on spending and impressions about political ads on Facebook, Instagram, Google, and YouTube in the weeks leading up to the European Parliament election. Please see our data collection log and methods page for more details on how we collected the data from the Facebook Ad Library API and the Google Ad Library.
WARNING: Missing data from Facebook
We've been unable to retrieve the complete list of political ads from Facebook from May 18 onward. Responding to our bug report, Facebook stated that they will not fix the issue. To see the most "up-to-date" data, you may wish to visit our archived report on May 17, 2019.
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Below is a breakdown of the political ads that appear on the Facebook and Google ad networks. Neither Facebook nor Google provide data on which site within their network (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.) that the ads appear. Therefore, we do not have any additional details other than the advertising network.
Facebook data is incomplete from May 18 onward.
Google does not provide country-level data for ads in the European Union.