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Facebook ads were a mess during the 2016 US election. And in the 2018 midterms. And they still are a mess. The social media site maintains it’s trying to clean up the disinformation and shenanigans, but questionable schemes run rampant and influence peddlers often hide their identities.

So we’re redoubling our efforts to watch what’s happening on Facebook. Quartz is taking over stewardship of the Political Ad Collector—a browser extension that lets you help us monitor political ads.

If you join the thousands people who’ve added the extension to Chrome or Firefox already, then the ads you see on Facebook as you browse normally will be added to our database, along with Facebook’s explanation of why you saw those ads.

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