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# Tip of the Week: How to Control Facebook and Instagram Ads
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[Daniel Mathieu](https://datalyst.directivesites.com/blog/blogger/daniel-mathieu)
Wednesday, 09 September 2020
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Social media platforms—like Facebook and Instagram—are a great place to communicate with people, as many political campaigns are now taking advantage of. With an election on the horizon, political advertisements abound on these platforms. Of course, not everyone wants their feeds cluttered with these ads… especially if these ads don’t align to their own politics.
This is why it’s a little surprising how few people know that you can turn off political ads.
This is one more part of Facebook’s recent election efforts, along with the information center that was recently rolled out. Deployed in June, this feature enables a user to block all advertisements from candidates, organizations, and Super PACs that are social, political, or electoral in nature from appearing on their Facebook or Instagram feed at all.
Basically, if an advertisement needs to disclose that it was paid for by a particular group or interest, users can block these posts preventatively.
## How to Deactivate Political Ads
There are a few routes you can take to avoid seeing political ads (or indeed, ads for assorted other topics) on your Facebook and Instagram streams.
### Facebook
To adjust the ads that appear on your Facebook feed, you first need to navigate to the **Settings & Privacy** section of the app or website. From there, navigate to **Settings** > **Ads** > **Ad Preferences** > **Ad Topics**. You’ll find assorted subjects that you can filter through, minimizing the number of ads you see discussing these topics.
Alternatively, if you come across an ad that you want to see less of as you’re scrolling through your feed, there are steps that you can take. Political ads should have a tag in the top-right corner that marks them as coming from a **Confirmed Organization**. Accessing that tag will open up a new window that allows you to see who paid for the ad, why this ad is presented to you, and—most applicably to our purposes here—again elect to see fewer ads about this topic.
You can learn more about the ins and outs of Facebook Ads[ here](https://www.facebook.com/ads/about).
### Instagram
The process for deactivating ads in Instagram is predictably like Facebook’s. In your Instagram account, simply navigate to your **Settings**, **Privacy** and **Security**, and simply select **See fewer ads** for the appropriate options.
Similarly, if you encounter an ad on your stream that you want to avoid, you can select **Paid for by** and, in turn, **See fewer ads like this**.
More information on Instagram Ads can be found[ here](https://help.instagram.com/537518769659039).
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