Are you a researcher who studies data-driven campaigning? Do you want to analyze the actual targeting criteria used by political parties to reach citizens during elections? Introducing {metatargetr} an #rstats📦that interfaces with the Meta Ad Library github.com/favstats/metatarg…

After many months work, we launched a major new version of our Trends political ad tracking platform this morning. Take a look (and let us know your feedback - we'd love to hear from you): trends.whotargets.me/reports

🚀 This weekend we launched the CampAIgn Tracker 🇳🇱! @meinungsfuehrer & I are glad to finally publish our dashboard where we monitor the use of AI imagery in campaign messages, by parties, politicians & others during the election #tk2025 See here campaigntracker.nl/en/

One key stories for 2026 is going to be control of the House Facebook & Instagram allow advertisers to targeted specific CDs but make it challenging to see all of the targeted activity So I parsed the data & created a new resource that does just that: aarenge.shinyapps.io/2026_me…

Within 2 years of campagining Donald Trump promised he would end the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 24 hours, or even before taking office. Here I visualize @cnn's timeline of 53 empty promises that fact-checker @ddale8 put together.

Bullet holes in the walls of the Caserne de la Cité, from the Battle of Paris. It looks like it could have been yesterday. All of Europe once burned. It wasn't that long ago. Peace is not permanent.

Interesting dataset of over 15,000 ads collected during the 2024 elections offers strong evidence of ongoing issues with clickbait political messaging on news websites. These ad ecosystems are hard to study because of their ephemeral nature. great dataset arxiv.org/abs/2503.02886

🏛️ Promotieplaats! Lijkt het je interessant om onderzoek te doen naar de invloed van smartphonegebruik op het politieke wereldbeeld van jongeren? Bekijk dan onderstaande vacature. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancie…

Always interesting to see: more money is spent on political ads in the U.S. during non-election periods than during the final 30 days before elections in many other countries, such as Germany.

🇺🇸 J.D. Vance in 2016: • “I never supported Trump—I didn’t like him from the start. It all comes down to trust: who do you believe? Donald Trump, who is known for always telling the truth? Just kidding. Or that woman from that team?” • “I hate Trump because I think he’s a fraud. A total and complete fraud—he just uses people for his own benefit. As you said, I agree: Trump is not who he claims to be. I don’t believe he actually cares about people.” • “Some of his supporters are definitely driven by racism or xenophobia. If Trump actually had a real chance of winning, I might have to grit my teeth and vote for Hillary Clinton. But I’d probably go third-party—because I can’t stand Trump. I think he’s toxic and is leading the white working class into a very dark future.”

Gespräch im ZDF Magazin Royale: Wahlkampf & Plattformmacht im #Grauburgunderbereich 🍷 Ich habe das ZDF-Team mit @favstats & @WhoTargetsMe bei der Recherche für die Sendung zum digitalen Wahlkampf unterstützt & landete im Studio Ehrenfeld. Das Ergebnis: zdf.de/comedy/zdf-magazin-ro…

I was in Crimea in 2014 when Russia sent troops to take over the peninsula. I meticulously documented the war they started in Ukraine in over 100 episodes & several documentaries for VICE News. Russia has been lying about its involvement from the start. youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…

Cooles tool dass Großenspenden an Parteien tracked! #btw25

🚨 Neues Online-Tool zur Analyse von Großspenden an Parteien: parteispenden.info Endlich da: In den letzten Wochen haben Georg Haustein und ich an einem Dashboard zur Analyse von Großspenden Parteien gearbeitet – stündlich aktualisiert.

Megaspannend! Alle reden von KI im Wahlkampf. 🤖 @meinungfuehrer @favstats @MiriamRunde et al monitoren die Verwendung nun kontinuierlich im 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐀𝐈𝐠𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 campaigntracker.de/ 73 KI-Bilder haben sie schon gefunden, 86% davon sind nicht als KI gelabelt. 🧐