ad blasting her adding that he spent more than 3000 of his own money on that ad and othersthat first ad which facebook did not designate as a political ad was titled lose by any means necessary it accused ms bateson of running a scorched earth campaign and helping the republican candidate by turning on her fellow democratsanother sierra nevada revolution ad which ran on facebook on may 26 and mentioned ms bateson and other topics did not say who had paid for it as required facebook said that it had made a mistake and that the ad was removed before being republished later with the correct labelimagecreditjason henry for the new york timesin total sierra nevada revolution ran 29 facebook ads in may aimed at swaying peoples votes in californias primary according to facebooks ad archivems bateson said that her own campaign was not verified as a political advertiser by facebook and had filled out the paperwork only in recent weeks her campaign was working with an outside digital advertising firm to run ads on facebookbut she worried that it would be too little too late especially since others have already made a mark through political facebook ads that were not properly labeledhere we are with people already voting by mail in the primaries and we see serious problems with their system ms bateson said of the social network we see that someone from here with local knowledge of our election can use facebook to really influence people