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Allen Waters for U.S. Senate US Inactive

THE WATERS COMMITTEE

Creative removed by Meta
This ad's image was taken down for violating Meta's ad standards; the copy below is preserved from the Ad Library.

Ad copy

Do you want to end federal income tax? Do you want to reduce corruption? Do you want to close the IRS? I do. That is why I signed the Fairtax.org pledge to support the Fair Tax Act in Congress (H.R. 25): Replace federal income tax with a national, retail sales tax, and close the IRS. The Fair Tax mean no income tax returns, no IRS abuse, no federal payroll withholding, and no tax favors. Allen Waters for U.S. Senate - Republican Donate/volunteer: WatersforSenate.com The Waters Committee P.O. Box 40565 Providence, RI 02649 Comments: [email protected]

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Performance proxies

Overall score28.3/100
Spend / Reach / Long. / Eff.0.0 · 45.5 · 0.8 · 67.0
Spend range<USD 99
Impressions4,000 – 4,999
CPM (≈ $/1k impr)USD 11.0
Est. audience size
Days live4 (2020-03-15 → 2020-03-19)
Created2020-03-15
Creative variants1 body · 0 headline
Platformsfacebook, instagram
Languagesen
CandidateRI — Allen Waters
Surfaced by“senate:Allen Waters”

🧠 AI analysis

Issueeconomy taxes
Framingissue advocacy
Message typepersuasion
Emotional appealurgency
Production tierdiy amateur
Who picturednone
Symbolsnone
Call to actiondonate
Standout elementFacebook content-removal notice replacing the actual ad image, exposing a disclaimer compliance failure
TacticThe ad leverages populist anti-tax rhetoric with three punchy rhetorical questions to build agreement before introducing the FairTax pledge, but its impact is undermined by a policy disclaimer violation that caused Facebook to hide the creative entirely.

Where it ran (delivery by region)

Rhode Island100.0%

Who saw it (delivery)

65+ · female 11.2%
55-64 · female 11.3%
65+ · male 13.2%
45-54 · male 13.3%
25-34 · male 9.9%
25-34 · female 5.0%
35-44 · female 4.4%
35-44 · male 8.1%
55-64 · male 15.9%
45-54 · female 6.9%
45-54 · unknown 0.2%
65+ · unknown 0.3%
55-64 · unknown 0.2%
35-44 · unknown 0.2%

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