Political TV Ad Archive Launches

[Frank W. Baker]

Launching on January 22 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the aptly titled Political TV Ad Archive represents a partnership between the Internet Archive and the National Press Club Journalism Institute, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, the Center for Public Integrity, and more. It’s also supported by the Knight News Challenge, an initiative of the Knight Foundation.

Its new online resource will host federal-level political ads that have appeared in primary states in the buildup to the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, and alongside these ads will be information on key organizations that have funded the ads, as well as fact-checking tools to establish the veracity of claims that have been made.