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This page ran 18 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 8 July 2026 and 5 October 2026. Meta reports $3–5.2K of spend, which makes it the 7,277th 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 Foreign Affairs Magazine.
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 ↗
18
ads
$4.1K
reported spend, range $3–5.2K
0.0%
of spend on federal races
$50
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 18 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Trump administration$1.7K
- The United States$750
- Donald Trump$299
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
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.
Almost all of the failures of the war in Iran flow from the Trump administration’s repudiation of the Powell Doctrine, argues Kori Schake. But “it is not too late for Powell’s precepts to help avert disaster” if Congress can pressure the White House to change course. Read the full article—sign up for the free Foreign Affairs This Week newsletter.
10 September 2026 · Foreign Affairs · $1–1.5K · 60K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
“The United States is not meeting the expectations many around the world have for the standard-bearer of an enlightened global order.” Read the full article—sign up for the free Foreign Affairs This Week newsletter.
29 July 2026 · Foreign Affairs · $700 – $799 · 60K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
“Russian military reconstitution after the war is not a question of if but of when.” Michael Kofman considers how the United States and Europe can prepare for the enduring threat from Moscow. Read the full article—sign up for the free Foreign Affairs This Week newsletter.
14 July 2026 · Foreign Affairs · $400 – $499 · 25K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
Trump’s economic warfare in Iran “can certainly immiserate most of the country’s people,” writes Esfandyar Batmanghelidj. “But it cannot successfully strangle the Islamic Republic itself.” Read the full article—sign up for the free Foreign Affairs This Week newsletter.
29 September 2026 · Foreign Affairs · $200 – $299 · 9K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
“Operation Epic Fury failed as a total victory. But over the past three years, the United States has accumulated a series of gains that have largely reversed Iran’s regional successes over the prior 20 years,” writes James Jeffrey. Read the full article—sign up for the free Foreign Affairs This Week newsletter.
14 July 2026 · Foreign Affairs · $200 – $299 · 10K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
Marc Lynch argues that if U.S. leaders “stick to the same path” in the Middle East, “they should expect the same result: a region beset by constant instability, economic and political failure, and repeated eruptions of violent conflict.” Read the full article—sign up for the free Foreign Affairs This Week newsletter.
1 September 2026 · Foreign Affairs · $100 – $199 · 6K+ impressions · Informational · 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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