Granted on your first two comments. But something not guaranteeing success doesn't mean it doesn't make it more likely. As for advertising dollars, you could a

Granted on your first two comments. But something not guaranteeing success doesn't mean it doesn't make it more likely. As for advertising dollars, you could absolutely hide a public ad in 2016 by buying through Facebook, not declaring yourself, and targeting a subset of users. And Citizens even gives you (not great, but some) legal cover if you're caught. "My ad was an artistic work sharing my own viewpoint." Done. State / city level, but someone else tuned me into this still running, funny-but-not-funny story in Seattle, in which an reporter decided to walk up to Facebook and Google and ask for election transparency documents they were legally obligated to provide under a 1977 city law. Tl;dr, they didn't keep relevant records, didn't have any idea about the law, and are still scrambling to be compliant. https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/12/04/25606100/were-asking-the-tech-giants-to-comply-with-seattles-law-on-political-ad-transparency-will-they https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/12/04/25606100/were-as...