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SIU Paul Simon Public Policy Institute
This page ran 3 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 17 June 2026 and 21 August 2026. Meta reports $0 – $297 of spend, which makes it the 21,157th 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. Paid for by Paul Simon Public Policy Institute.
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 ↗
3
ads
$149
reported spend, range $0 – $297
0.0%
of spend on federal races
$50
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 3 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Topics
Spend by race: State 33%, No specific race 67%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
Former U.S. Congressman Adam Kinzinger will visit Southern Illinois University on Sept. 15 for an evening focused on leadership, public service, political division and his experiences in Congress. Kinzinger will speak from 6 to 7 p.m. in Ballroom B of the SIU Student Center, following a reception from 5 to 6 p.m. The event is open to students, faculty, staff and community members. The event is presented by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. Kinzinger, a six-term Republican congressman who
21 August 2026 · SIU Paul Simon Public Policy Institute · $0 – $99 · 8K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
Southern Illinois University Carbondale alumna and Democratic nominee for Illinois’ 8th District State Representative, Shantel Franklin, will return to campus Sept. 16 for an evening focused on leadership, public service and her journey from SIU student to public servant. The event is co-sponsored by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, Women in Public Policy and Civic Engagement — the Institute’s newest registered student organization — and the SIU Alumni Association. Franklin will speak fr
18 August 2026 · SIU Paul Simon Public Policy Institute · $0 – $99 · 8K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
David Kennedy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and professor emeritus at Stanford University, will discuss the United States and the American presidency on the eve of the nation's 250th anniversary with the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. Kennedy will join Institute director John Shaw for a virtual discussion on June 23 at noon CT. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1999 for “Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War,” a critically acclaimed account of the p
17 June 2026 · SIU Paul Simon Public Policy Institute · $0 – $99 · 1K+ 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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