Meta Platforms

vendor · #35 of 310 in Pennsylvania · U.S. Senate · 2024all Schedule E rows for this payee on fec.gov ↗
filed asMETAMETA PLATFORMS INC.FACEBOOKMETA PLATFORMSMETA, INC

verified by hand · rule case/punctuation/suffix normalisation + token-set ≥0.92 (numeric tokens must match); aliases file — hand alias row folds 5 filed payee string(s) into one vendor — checked by devin-block2-vendors on Sep 5, 2026fec.gov ↗source ↗

Paid in this race
$290K
0.1% of outside spending
Buys
43
Jun 7, 2024 – Nov 16, 2024
Spenders
9
committees reporting payments
Top medium
digital
100% of dollars

By medium

digital
digital 100%
$290K 43 buys

Medium is classified from the purpose the spender filed; the FEC does not record which buy placed which ad.

inferred · rule Medium is classified from the purpose string the spender filed on Schedule E, by an ordered keyword table (first match wins, keywords matched at word starts): production: produc, creative, design, videograph, photograph, filming; digital: digital, online, internet, web, social, streaming, email, youtube, facebook, google, meta, gif; radio: radio; tv: tv, television, broadcast, cable, media buy, media placement; mail: mail, postage, postcard, print; phones: phone, text, sms, robocall, call, dial, teleconferenc; consulting: poll, research, consult, strateg, list, targeting, voter file; field: canvass, door, field, gotv; other: no match. The FEC does not record which buy placed which ad.Schedule E fields ↗

Who paid this vendor

Candidates named on the buys

Targeting, not money: the spender declares support or opposition on each Schedule E row; the candidate receives nothing.

for Bob Casey $288Kagainst Dave McCormick $2K

Ads linked to this vendor

None. An ad is linked only when a person verified it from a source naming both, or when this was the only digital vendor its sponsor paid in the week before and while it ran — the FEC does not record which buy placed which ad, so this is not evidence that the vendor made no ads.

Every buy

DateSpenderS/OTargetAmountMediumFiled payee · purposeSource
Nov 16, 2024DEMOCRATIC MESSAGING PROJECTSBob Casey$3,108digitalFACEBOOK · ADVERTISINGFEC ↗
Nov 5, 2024CLIMATE EMERGENCY ADVOCATESSBob Casey$12,000digitalMETA · ADS SUPPORTING BOB CASEYFEC ↗
Nov 4, 2024CLIMATE EMERGENCY ADVOCATESSBob Casey$6,000digitalMETA · ADS SUPPORTING BOB CASEYFEC ↗
Nov 1, 2024CLIMATE EMERGENCY ADVOCATESSBob Casey$125digitalMETA · ADS SUPPORTING BOB CASEYFEC ↗
Oct 31, 2024CLIMATE EMERGENCY ADVOCATESSBob Casey$5,000digitalMETA · ADS SUPPORTING BOB CASEYFEC ↗
Oct 31, 2024MOMSRISING TOGETHERSBob Casey$800digitalMETA · SOCIAL MEDIA AD BUYFEC ↗
Oct 30, 2024WORKING AMERICASBob Casey$50,000digitalMETA · DIGITAL ADVERTISINGFEC ↗
Oct 30, 2024CLIMATE EMERGENCY ADVOCATESSBob Casey$5,000digitalMETA · ADS SUPPORTING BOB CASEYFEC ↗
Oct 29, 2024CLIMATE EMERGENCY ADVOCATESSBob Casey$6,000digitalMETA · ADS SUPPORTING BOB CASEYFEC ↗
Oct 28, 2024CLIMATE EMERGENCY ADVOCATESSBob Casey$3,300digitalMETA · ADS SUPPORTING BOB CASEYFEC ↗
Oct 25, 2024CLIMATE EMERGENCY ADVOCATESSBob Casey$175digitalMETA · ADS SUPPORTING BOB CASEYFEC ↗
Oct 24, 2024CLIMATE EMERGENCY ADVOCATESSBob Casey$2,000digitalMETA · ADS SUPPORTING BOB CASEYFEC ↗
Oct 22, 2024MOMSRISING TOGETHERSBob Casey$700digitalMETA · SOCIAL MEDIA AD BUYFEC ↗
Oct 22, 2024FOR OUR FUTURESBob Casey$613digitalMETA PLATFORMS · DIGITAL ADVERTISING (ESTIMATE)FEC ↗
Oct 22, 2024FOR OUR FUTURESBob Casey$100digitalMETA PLATFORMS · DIGITAL ADVERTISINGFEC ↗
Oct 22, 2024FOR OUR FUTURESBob Casey$100digitalMETA PLATFORMS · DIGITAL ADVERTISINGFEC ↗
Oct 21, 2024FOR OUR FUTURESBob Casey$200digitalMETA PLATFORMS · DIGITAL ADVERTISINGFEC ↗
Oct 19, 2024JDCA PACSBob Casey$888digitalMETA · DIGITAL ADS (ESTIMATE)FEC ↗
Oct 19, 2024JDCA PACSBob Casey$27digitalMETA · DIGITAL ADS (ESTIMATE)FEC ↗
Oct 19, 2024JDCA PACSBob Casey$27digitalMETA · DIGITAL ADS (ESTIMATE)FEC ↗
Oct 19, 2024JDCA PACSBob Casey$27digitalMETA · DIGITAL ADS (ESTIMATE)FEC ↗
Oct 19, 2024JDCA PACSBob Casey$27digitalMETA · DIGITAL ADS (ESTIMATE)FEC ↗
Oct 19, 2024JDCA PACSBob Casey$27digitalMETA · DIGITAL ADS (ESTIMATE)FEC ↗
Oct 18, 2024FOR OUR FUTURESBob Casey$1,533digitalMETA PLATFORMS · DIGITAL ADVERTISINGFEC ↗
Oct 18, 2024FOR OUR FUTURESBob Casey$500digitalMETA PLATFORMS · DIGITAL ADVERTISINGFEC ↗
Oct 18, 2024FOR OUR FUTURESBob Casey$467digitalMETA PLATFORMS · DIGITAL ADVERTISINGFEC ↗
Oct 18, 2024THEY SEE BLUESBob Casey$225digitalFACEBOOK · INTERNET ADSFEC ↗
Oct 17, 2024FOR OUR FUTURESBob Casey$100digitalMETA PLATFORMS · DIGITAL ADVERTISINGFEC ↗
Oct 15, 2024NAKASEC ACTION FUNDSBob Casey$3,000digitalMETA, INC · DIGITAL ADVERTISEMENT (ESTIMATE)FEC ↗
Oct 15, 2024FOR OUR FUTURESBob Casey$375digitalMETA PLATFORMS · DIGITAL ADVERTISINGFEC ↗
Oct 11, 2024THEY SEE BLUESBob Casey$936digitalFACEBOOK · INTERNET ADS 10/3-10/10/24FEC ↗
Oct 8, 2024FOR OUR FUTURESBob Casey$1,535digitalMETA PLATFORMS · DIGITAL ADVERTISINGFEC ↗
Oct 8, 2024FOR OUR FUTURESBob Casey$375digitalMETA PLATFORMS · DIGITAL ADVERTISINGFEC ↗
Oct 7, 2024JDCA PACSBob Casey$2,500digitalMETA · DIGITAL ADS (ESTIMATE)FEC ↗
Oct 3, 2024THEY SEE BLUESBob Casey$28digitalFACEBOOK · 9/29 - 10/3/24 INTERNET ADSFEC ↗
Sep 30, 2024DEMOCRATIC MESSAGING PROJECTSBob Casey$3,108digitalFACEBOOK · ADVERTISINGFEC ↗
Sep 30, 2024THEY SEE BLUESBob Casey$168digitalFACEBOOK · 9/22-9/30/24 INTERNET ADSFEC ↗
Sep 24, 2024WORKING AMERICASBob Casey$145,000digitalMETA · DIGITAL ADVERTISINGFEC ↗
Sep 24, 2024WORKING AMERICASBob Casey$5,000digitalMETA · DIGITAL ADVERTISINGFEC ↗
Sep 21, 2024THEY SEE BLUESBob Casey$1,508digitalFACEBOOK · 9/6-9/15 INTERNET ADSFEC ↗
Sep 4, 2024NATIONAL NURSES UNITED FOR PATIENT PROTECTIONSBob Casey$21,111digitalMETA PLATFORMS INC. · ESTIMATED COST FOR SOCIAL MEDIA ADSFEC ↗
Aug 9, 2024WORKING AMERICASBob Casey$4,000digitalMETA · DIGITAL ADVERTISINGFEC ↗
Jun 7, 2024WORKING AMERICAODave McCormick$1,800digitalMETA · DIGITAL ADVERTISINGFEC ↗

Every Schedule E independent expenditure names a payee. Payee strings are normalised (case, punctuation, legal suffixes, token order), near-duplicates are folded with a difflib ratio ≥ 0.92 when their numeric tokens match, and hand alias rows from data/hand/<race>/vendor_aliases.json override the rule. Medium is classified from the purpose the spender filed (ordered keyword table in campaign_commons/vendors.py). The FEC does not record which buy placed which ad: vendor ↔ ad links are date-window adjacency (or single-digital-vendor inference) from campaign_commons.ads_enrich, each with its basis, and are only `verified` when a person found a source naming both. Totals are the filed amounts, grouped, never re-estimated.

Money and positions are shown side by side because they are public records about the same person. Proximity is not causation; we make no claim that any contribution produced any action.

Methodology