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The Christian Science Monitor

This page ran 615 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 1 May 2026 and 23 October 2026. Meta reports $19.3–80.6K of spend, which makes it the 1,276th 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 ↗

615

ads

$49.9K

reported spend, range $19.3–80.6K

4.0%

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
20%
Informational
80%

Share of the 614 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Donald Trump$3.1K
  • Trump administration$1.9K
  • The Trump administration$1.5K
  • Republicans$995
  • Congress$995
  • the Trump administration$896

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

Topics

Security, crime & immigration
46%
Corruption & governance
29%
Infrastructure & energy
12%
Electoral process & turnout
11%
Economy & cost of living
11%
Candidate profile
4.2%
Social protection
4.2%
Education
3.9%

Spend by race: Federal 4.0%, Ballot measures 0.8%, Local 0.8%, No specific race 94%.

Spend by ad language: English 100%.

The costliest ads

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

  • The Trump administration is changing a key definition in the law, putting focus on what that means for the species the act protects.

    26 August 2026 · The Christian Science Monitor · $1–1.5K · 30K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • As the Trump administration mulls a diplomatic path to concluding its war with Iran, one Middle East country – beyond Israel – is pushing Washington to take a tougher line.

    4 May 2026 · The Christian Science Monitor · $900 – $999 · 70K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • President Donald Trump directed the U.S. government to pay billions to stop wind energy projects from going forward. In response, states have sued.

    4 August 2026 · The Christian Science Monitor · $600 – $699 · 15K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Over the past year, the Trump administration has gone to great lengths to undo his predecessor’s efforts to establish a wind power industry off the coast of the United States.

    5 August 2026 · The Christian Science Monitor · $600 – $699 · 40K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • As President Trump calls attention to the SAVE America Act, other potentially significant changes to how Americans vote are taking place ahead of midterm elections.

    14 July 2026 · The Christian Science Monitor · $600 – $699 · 40K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • Joe Ceballos, who twice led the tiny Kansas town of Coldwater, and voted in elections despite not being a U.S. citizen, is facing deportation.

    23 June 2026 · The Christian Science Monitor · $600 – $699 · 20K+ 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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