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Vanity Fair

This page ran 48 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 8 May 2026 and 5 October 2026. Meta reports $35.5–45.7K of spend, which makes it the 1,515th 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 ↗

48

ads

$40.6K

reported spend, range $35.5–45.7K

5.9%

of spend on federal races

$250

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
31%
Informational
69%

Share of the 48 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Usha Vance$5.8K
  • Robert Kiyosaki$3.5K
  • Howard Lutnick$749
  • Donald Trump$497

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

Topics

Corruption & governance
38%
Candidate profile
31%
Security, crime & immigration
25%
Other
19%
Electoral process & turnout
13%
Infrastructure & energy
6.3%
Economy & cost of living
6.3%

Spend by race: Federal 5.9%, No specific race 94%.

Spend by ad language: English 100%.

The costliest ads

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

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with that question, and what it means for the 2028 election.

    19 June 2026 · Vanity Fair · $8–9K · 450K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • When news of her affair with Gavin Newsom exploded into the public eye, it was only the outward mark of a long-rippling private implosion. In the wreckage of the scandal, Ruby Rippey faced her demons but lost her voice. Twenty years later, she is ready to share her story.

    29 July 2026 · Vanity Fair · $5–6K · 200K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • "It’s patronizing to say that she’s been silenced,” one Yale Law classmate says of JD Vance’s wife, who has perfected the art of knowing where she stands in the Trump administration’s political pecking order. She has chosen this.

    17 August 2026 · Vanity Fair · $4–4.5K · 250K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Kiyosaki, who built an empire on the idea of getting rich, now says he’s deeply in debt. Vanity Fair visits the author and friend of Trump at home in Arizona to understand the distance between the gospel of his books and his own bleeding balance sheet.

    31 August 2026 · Vanity Fair · $2.5–3K · 150K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • A newly revised lawsuit filed by water polo player Aidan Romain claims that in 2020, Van der Woude told a Jewish peer words to the effect of: “Die in an oven.” Meanwhile, Black parents at Harvard-Westlake School say they are angry about the school’s lack of accountability in addressing discrimination: “Hopefully they are taking action. What action? I have no idea.”

    8 June 2026 · Vanity Fair · $2–2.5K · 80K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • A year after Charlie Kirk’s killing, his widow talks to VF about the fight over TPUSA and the conspiracy theories surrounding her. But there’s one thing she doesn't really want to discuss.

    5 October 2026 · Vanity Fair · $1.5–2K · 60K+ 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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