Every complaint about political advertising submitted through PolAds, counted and published each quarter. We publish these voluntarily, and each closed quarter is frozen so it can be cited.
Machine readableWe publish a quarter's figures only once enough complaints have been filed, about enough different publishers, that no single complaint and no single publisher can be picked out of the totals.
This quarter has not reached that point, so no counts are shown. Not a zero, and not an outage: a deliberate silence.
A quarter withheld at the time it closed stays withheld. Republishing it later, once the platform is larger, would move a figure somebody may already have cited.
How far this quarter has got toward either threshold is itself withheld, for the same reason the totals are.
PolAds runs the platform through which complaints are submitted. The legal duty to handle a complaint rests with the publisher it concerns, not with us.
Every figure covers the whole platform. No individual publisher, advertiser or complainant is identified here, in any quarter, at any volume.