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Ben Shapiro
This page ran 405 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 1 May 2026 and 26 October 2026. Meta reports $93–144.6K of spend, which makes it the 600th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Media. Most of its spend took no side. Race: No specific race. Paid for by The Daily Wire.
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 ↗
405
ads
$118.8K
reported spend, range $93–144.6K
0.3%
of spend on federal races
$50
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 288 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Hollywood$17.1K
- the left$12.4K
- The media$3.1K
- AOC$2.3K
- the media$1.6K
- Dr. Fauci$947
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
Topics
Spend by race: Federal 0.3%, No specific race 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 60%.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
Matt Walsh just published something every American needs to read. He connects the dots on a deliberate cultural shift and backs it up with data. This is exactly the kind of analysis Daily Wire exists to publish. Read the full piece on DailyWire+.
29 May 2026 · Ben Shapiro · $7–8K · 300K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
From stop and frisk to Michael Brown to mass incarceration, the left has a narrative about criminal justice in America. Almost none of it holds up to scrutiny. This piece examines each claim against the actual data. The results are not ambiguous. Read on The Daily Wire.
29 July 2026 · Ben Shapiro · $6–7K · 350K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
AOC on Shoplifting
7 August 2026 · Ben Shapiro · $5–6K · 600K+ impressions · Ad Library
Don't Call Me a Democrat 🤧
8 September 2026 · Ben Shapiro · $4–4.5K · 450K+ impressions · Ad Library
Hollywood has spent the better part of a decade turning television into a lecture. The result is declining viewership, collapsing ratings, and an audience that has quietly stopped watching. These ten shows are the exception. No agenda. No moralizing. Just good television. The Daily Wire has the full list.
22 July 2026 · Ben Shapiro · $3–3.5K · 150K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Teachers are speaking out about what is actually happening inside America's classrooms. What they're describing is the slow collapse of an institution that was once the foundation of civilized society.
22 July 2026 · Ben Shapiro · $3–3.5K · 200K+ impressions · Attack · 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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