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Report September 2026

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Commitment 11
Relevant Signatories commit to provide application programming interfaces (APIs) or other interfaces enabling users and researchers to perform customised searches within their ad repositories of political or issue advertising and to include a set of minimum functionalities as well as a set of minimum search criteria for the application of APIs or other interfaces.
We signed up to the following measures of this commitment
Measure 11.1 Measure 11.2 Measure 11.3 Measure 11.4
In line with this commitment, did you deploy new implementation measures (e.g. changes to your terms of service, new tools, new policies, etc)?
Since 6 October 2025, Meta no longer allows social issue, political, and electoral ads (“SIEP ads”) on our platforms in the EU and associated territories. SIEP ads are still permitted in the remaining EEA countries, namely Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein, subject to the applicable policy and authorisation requirements. 
If yes, list these implementation measures here
N/A
Do you plan to put further implementation measures in place in the next 6 months to substantially improve the maturity of the implementation of this commitment?
Since 6 October 2025, Meta no longer allows social issue, political, and electoral ads (“SIEP ads”) on our platforms in the EU and associated territories. SIEP ads are still permitted in the remaining EEA countries, namely Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein, subject to the applicable policy and authorisation requirements. 
If yes, which further implementation measures do you plan to put in place in the next 6 months?
N/A
Measure 11.1
Relevant Signatories' APIs or other interfaces will provide a set of minimum functionalities and search criteria that enable users and researchers to perform customised searches for data in as close to real time as possible (in particular during elections) in standard formats, including for instance searches per advertiser or candidate, per geographic area or country, per language, per keyword, per election, or per other targeting criteria, to allow for research and monitoring.
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QRE 11.1.1 (for Measures 11.1-11.4)
Details extracted from JSON files.
The Ad Library API provides access data about ads from countries where the Ad Library is live, including European Union countries. The results returned from the API include:
  • Ad creatives
  • Ad performance data including total amount spent (range)
  • Total impressions an ad received (range)
  • Demographics: age, gender, and location of people reached (%)
  • The dates the ad started and stopped delivering

The Ad Library API provides programmatic access to information about ads about politics or issues in the Ad Library. You can search for all ads about social issues, elections or politics that were delivered anywhere in the world during the past 7 years, including ads from when we allowed SIEP ads on our platforms in the EU, as well as ads of any type that were delivered to the European Union during the past year. In the EU, anyone who completes the sign-up steps listed here can access the API.

Anyone can explore the Ad Library, with or without an Instagram account. Reporting illegal content does not require an account and can be done without logging in. However, reporting ads for any other reason and viewing adult content both require the user to have an account and to be logged in.