And while Google also decided to lift its ban on political ads, many of the other major platforms, including Twitter , Spotify , Tik Tok , LinkedIn , Pinterest , and Amazon have maintained the bans on political ads they instituted before the 2020 election. These three issues with existing data complicate efforts to assess how committees, political organizations, and ad agencies adjusted ad buys in response to platform ad bans. Specifically, we recommend that the Honest Ads act be broadened to apply to all digital political ad platforms, that it standardize the data that platform archives supply, and that it require better public access to archives.