Steps to get authorized

Note: These steps happen on the Facebook personal profile account level and apply to any person creating, modifying, publishing or pausing ads about social issues, elections or politics.

• Option 1: You can begin the authorization process by logging into your personal Facebook profile account and then going to facebook.com/ID on desktop or a mobile device.
• Option 2: Complete the authorization process via the Facebook mobile app
  1. Open the app and press the menu button (☰) on the bottom right.
  2. Tap Settings & Privacy drop down.
  3. Tap Settings.
  4. Tap Personal information.
  5. Tap Identity confirmation to enter the Hub.
  6. Tap Confirm Your Identity and follow the instructions to complete the process.

You must be authorized and have Facebook Full Access (Admin) to the Page you intend to create a disclaimer for to run ads about social issues, elections or politics. You must be on a desktop and switched into the Page to create the disclaimer.

1. Go into your Page.
2. Click Settings & privacy and then click Settings.
3. In the left menu, click Page Setup.
4. Next to Issue, Electoral or Political Ads, click View.
5. Under Create and Manage Disclaimers, click Create button.
6. On the Choose a Verification Option window, select the option that best suits your organization and then click Next.

1. Go into your Page.
2. Click Settings & privacy and then click Settings.
3. In the left menu, click Page Setup.
4. Next to Issue, Electoral or Political Ads, click View.
5. Below Link disclaimers for this Page, click View.
6. By default, any ad accounts you're an ad account advertiser or admin on will appear automatically, and you can select the ones that will be used to pay for your Page's ads about social issues, elections or politics. If you need to add additional ad accounts, you'll need to have the numbers associated with each of the ad accounts you'd like to add. Learn how to find your ad account IDs. Once you have your ad account IDs, add them one at a time and click Add. Your ad account information will appear as you add it. In the Enable section, check the box adjacent to each ad account you'd like to use to run ads about social issues, elections or politics. When you're done, click Next.Note: You're only allowed to have one disclaimer for each ad account linked to a specific Page.

To increase transparency about who’s behind a Page, an admin on each Page is required to designate who is responsible for the Page in order to run ads about social issues, elections or politics.

1. Go into your Page.
2. Click Settings & privacy and then click Settings.
3. In the left menu, click Page Setup.
4. Next to Page Transparency, click View.
5. Under Claim This Page, select your disclaimer and click Assign.

When creating campaigns with these ads in Ads Manager, or boosting a post via your Page or Meta Business Suite, you must select ‘I'm creating a campaign for ads in a Special Ad Category’ and choose ‘Social Issues, Elections or Politics’ at the beginning of your campaign setup. If you do not self-declare that your ads are about ‘Social Issues, Elections or Politics’ before you submit them, your disclaimer will not be attached to the ads, and they will not be approved to run.

The turnaround time for reviewing these ads is up to 72 hours.

The ad authorizations process is one way that we maintain the integrity of ads about social issues, elections and politics on our platforms, and is required for a variety of influential content beyond traditional political campaign rhetoric. If you aren’t sure if the content of your ad will require a disclaimer, we encourage you to learn more about how Meta defines ads about social issues, elections, or politics and see examples of social issues here. We encourage you to begin the authorization process at least two weeks earlier than you plan to begin running ads about social issues, elections and politics.

For more information on how to get authorized for your country, visit the Help Center.