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Gambling is Not Investing
This page ran 8 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 8 July 2026 and 13 August 2026. Meta reports $3.8–5K of spend, which makes it the 7,001st 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 ↗
8
ads
$4.4K
reported spend, range $3.8–5K
0.0%
of spend on federal races
$350
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 8 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Special interests$2.2K
- Federal regulators$749
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.
If prediction markets were really "investing," they wouldn't need to be SMUGGLED into a budget bill. Special interests buried a massive gambling expansion in NC's budget. Call your Rep now: (919) 733-4111
17 July 2026 · Gambling is Not Investing · $2–2.5K · 150K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Georgia hasn’t legalized sports betting, but prediction markets are already taking bets in Georgia with zero oversight. New label. Same bet. Tell your representatives it’s time for accountability.
8 July 2026 · Gambling is Not Investing · $400 – $499 · 80K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Prediction markets are operating as unsafe and illegal sports gambling platforms — using commodity market classification to avoid the oversight that every sportsbook, casino, and poker room in America is required to meet. Rein prediction markets now.
14 July 2026 · Gambling is Not Investing · $400 – $499 · 45K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Alabama lawmakers deliberately rejected online sports gambling. Yet prediction markets have moved in anyway — offering the same bets under a different name, with no consumer safeguards and no minimum age. Alabama made a choice. Federal regulators let it be undone.
3 August 2026 · Gambling is Not Investing · $300 – $399 · 40K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Prediction markets dress up sports gambling in financial language. But when you’re betting on tonight’s game with live odds on your phone, that’s not investing. Mississippi’s leaders have a chance to demand accountability. Ask them to act.
3 August 2026 · Gambling is Not Investing · $100 – $199 · 25K+ 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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