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Association of American Universities
This page ran 6 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 11 May 2026 and 11 June 2026. Meta reports $800 – $1.4K of spend, which makes it the 13,170th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Group or campaign. Most of its spend took no side. Race: No specific race.
Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026. · Every ad of this page in Meta’s Ad Library ↗
6
ads
$1.1K
reported spend, range $800 – $1.4K
0.0%
of spend on federal races
$150
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 6 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Topics
Spend by race: No specific race 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
Federal science agencies are still not spending the funds provided to them by Congress fast enough. NIH has awarded half as many new grants so far this fiscal year as compared to the historical average.
22 May 2026 · Association of American Universities · $400 – $499 · 70K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Did you know that universities invest more of their own funds in campus-based research ($30.2 billion) than all other non-federal supporters combined? This level of university investment in research makes clear that there is no realistic way for universities to make up for losses in federal support by turning to industry, state or local governments, or philanthropic organizations.
11 June 2026 · Association of American Universities · $100 – $199 · 10K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
Senators are currently considering the DETERRENT Act that — if passed and signed into law — would hamper scientific progress in the United States.
9 June 2026 · Association of American Universities · $100 – $199 · 10K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
China has topped the United States in research and development (R&D) spending — posing a serious threat to the U.S.'s global scientific leadership.
2 June 2026 · Association of American Universities · $100 – $199 · 10K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
The loss of scientific talent in the United States due to research funding chaos will hurt long-term economic growth and innovation, says a report by a coalition of local and regional business leaders from across the country.
26 May 2026 · Association of American Universities · $100 – $199 · 15K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
Decades of university research has helped the U.S. military transition away from oil and gas energy to a process known as biomanufacturing, reducing dependence on external sources of raw material and allowing the military to develop greater self-reliance.
11 May 2026 · Association of American Universities · $0 – $99 · 10K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Figures cover domestic political ads paid in dollars, from 4 May 2026. Spend is the sum of Meta’s range midpoints; impressions above one million are reported as “1M+”, so impression figures are floors. Each ad counts in the week its delivery started, with its lifetime spend at our last pull; ads still running before the vote are counted as of 31 October 2026.
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