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As part of our project to improve the transparency of online political advertising, we have publically released our data and tools for others to analyze online political ads.\n\nThis will be a talk about improving the transparency of online political advertising.\n\nWe will start by describing the online political advertising transparency efforts that Facebook, Google, and Twitter have implemented.\n\nWe will next explain how we collected data from each of these efforts and are making it public.\n\nAfter this, we will explain some of the methodologies and tools we are building to help analyze and visualize this data. Next, we will present some of our findings on how online political ads are being targetted and the messages they are communicating with different target audiences.\n\nWe will also present some case studies on major online political advertisers such as Donald Trump, Beto O’Rourke, the NRA, and Planned Parenthood. 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