According to Avaaz's findings, Stop Republicans spent $45,000 on 30 ads with misleading claims about the USPS beginning in late July, resulting in roughly 1 million ad impressions. Since May, America First Action has spent nearly $2.6 million on some 11,000 political Facebook ads; the $287,500 it spent on misleading ads represents 11% of its total spend since then. Stop Republicans' misleading ads amounted to just 0.2% of its overall Facebook budget, largely because it is one of the biggest political spenders on Facebook advertising; since May, it has spent $19.7 million on some 3,000 political ads on the platform. Avaaz said the ads were determined to be misleading based on fact-check articles published by Facebook's own journalistic partners. Alluding to claims of anti-conservative bias by Facebook, Greenberg added: "Does it appear they're applying their policies equally?

Source: CNN September 23, 2020 19:02 UTC