get political ads filtered by language from ProPublica? about facebook-political-ads

[jeremybmerrill]

Hi @ohadcn

We're not currently publishing ads for countries besides the US and Germany. Adding additional countries requires a local journalistic partner and additional labor-intensive steps that we're not undertaking right now. Are you affiliated with a journalism organization? Whether new local partners are being added might (or might not!) change in the next few weeks.

(I see very few Israeli ads for the reasons I mention above, though I see ads from Meretz targeted to men who like Meretz's page; I see ads from various Likud politicians and the "New Likudniks" too.)

[ohadcn]

Hey @jeremybmerrill

You see very few ads because we haven't yet asked volunteers to install the addon, once we will have access to the collected data we will ask volunteers to install it.
I came up to this project when Tomer - a journalist from "shakuf" (transparent in hebrew) asked me to fork facebook political ads for collecting Israeli advertisements.
There are going to be elections in Israel in April, so we want to start tracking the ads as soon as possible.

[jeremybmerrill]

@ohadcn okay! Can you send me an email so we can talk about details? my email address is my github username at gmail . (and it's also listed on my github profile page and on my website, jeremybmerrill.com)