United States 2026 · Every advertiser

WIRED

This page ran 32 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 13 October 2026 and 14 October 2026. Meta reports $2.7–5.9K of spend, which makes it the 7,100th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Media. Most of its spend was on the Democrats’ 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 ↗

32

ads

$4.3K

reported spend, range $2.7–5.9K

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$50

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

 Spend still counting
2 Nov

Tone

Attack
16%
Informational
84%

Share of the 32 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Donald Trump$399
  • Emma Waters$249

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

Topics

Corruption & governance
44%
Security, crime & immigration
44%
Health
9.4%
Infrastructure & energy
9.4%
Jobs & youth
9.4%
Education
9.4%

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.

  • Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know

    13 October 2026 · WIRED · $500 – $599 · 25K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

    13 October 2026 · WIRED · $500 – $599 · 15K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • "An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework. "

    13 October 2026 · WIRED · $300 – $399 · 8K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next: ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

    13 October 2026 · WIRED · $200 – $299 · 7K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history.

    13 October 2026 · WIRED · $200 – $299 · 10K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.

    13 October 2026 · WIRED · $100 – $199 · 6K+ 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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