Trump campaign spent up to $80,000 on Facebook anti-TikTok ads

Trump campaign spent up to $80,000 on Facebook anti-TikTok ads
  • In the five days between July 17 and July 21, accounts tied to Donald Trump’s campaign posted 450 separate adverts on Facebook and Instagram lambasting TikTok for spying on users and siphoning data to China.

  • Facebook’s transparency data showed that the campaign spent tens of thousands of dollars on the ads, perhaps as much as $80,000.

  • The most-viewed ad posted by the Trump campaign is a 30-second video that claims “TikTok is spying on you.” It reached at least 400,000 Americans.

  • TikTok has denied all the allegations made in the ads.

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  • Donald Trump really hates TikTok. If you didn’t get the hint from his multiple threats to ban the video sharing app, then you only need look at your Facebook or Instagram feed.


    In the five days from July 17 to July 21, three accounts tied to Trump’s campaign – his official Facebook and Instagram pages, his vice president Mike Pence’s official pages, and the pages of Team Trump, an organizing committee – posted 450 separate adverts lambasting TikTok, claiming it spies on users and siphons data to China. TikTok has denied all the allegations made in the ads, but declined to comment for this story.




    Analysis of transparency data published by Facebook shows that the Trump campaign spent tens of thousands, perhaps as much as $80,000 (Facebook’s data gives wide ranges for amounts spent) on the ads. They were seen by up to 5.5 million Americans and were mostly targeted at Trump-voting states, including Texas and Florida.


    As of July 22, the most-viewed ad posted by the Trump campaign is a trump campaign spent facebook tiktok