STAT

This page ran 103 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 6 May 2026 and 21 October 2026. Meta reports $6.6–17.2K of spend, which makes it the 3,792nd largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Media. 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 ↗

103

ads

$11.9K

reported spend, range $6.6–17.2K

0.4%

of spend on federal races

$50

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

4 May

1 Jun

6 Jul

3 Aug

7 Sep

5 Oct

Spend still counting

2 Nov

Tone

Attack

25%

Promotional

1.9%

Informational

73%

Share of the 103 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

MAHA$1K
Fauci$798
RFK Jr.$649
The Trump administration$350
FDA$348
JFK Jr.$199

Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.

Topics

Health

88%

Corruption & governance

22%

Economy & cost of living

6.8%

Electoral process & turnout

2.9%

Social protection

2.9%

Jobs & youth

2.9%

Security, crime & immigration

2.9%

Spend by race: Federal 0.4%, No specific race 100%.

Spend by ad language: English 100%.

The costliest ads

The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.

Nearly 25% of U.S. workers say they want to leave their job, but will end up staying to keep their health benefits. STAT explores why this is.
14 August 2026 · STAT · $1–1.5K · 60K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
A solo business owner shares how health coverage has never been affordable for her in part 2 of STAT's "Out of Pocket, Out of Reach."
12 August 2026 · STAT · $700 – $799 · 35K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
Drinking causes more deaths in America every year than infectious diseases and opioids combined and MAHA has overlooked alcohol addiction research.
8 July 2026 · STAT · $500 – $599 · 80K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
As the one-year anniversary of RFK Jr. cancelling 22 mRNA vaccine projects passes, a STAT opinion piece explores how science shows he was wrong.
22 August 2026 · STAT · $400 – $499 · 50K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Breaking: Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions relating to Covid-19. He said he was doing so on the advice of his attorneys.
12 August 2026 · STAT · $400 – $499 · 45K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
President Trump announced the next round of pricing deals with drugmakers, with nine new companies joining the others that reached agreements.
11 September 2026 · STAT · $300 – $399 · 25K+ 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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