[ccleve]

This really interesting, but I think they have an odd idea of transparency.

I searched for some ads for a congressional race in 2018, obviously inactive, and they were all there, but I couldn't view them because: "This content was removed because the disclaimer didn’t follow our policy for ads about social issues, elections or politics."

For what conceivable reason would they block historical ads, ads that actually ran in the past but are no longer active? Those ads probably didn't meet the disclaimer rules because the rules were different back in 2018.

[neilv]

Sounds like that defeats much of the purpose. One thing they definitely need to do now is to be certain to retain all that data, for future transparency and historical record.