This article highlights what we know about the empirical effects of data-campaigning in political campaigns and how those findings fail to live up to claims about its power.
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Personalised political messaging undermines voter autonomy and the electoral process. Use of voter analytics for political communication must be regulated.
This paper examines how Google Search ranked 29 junk news domains between 2016 and 2019, finding that SEO — rather than paid advertising — is the most important strategy for generating discoverability via Google Search. Google has taken several steps to combat the spread of disinformation on Search, and these strategies have been largely
Will the same cross-device technologies that track our journeys through the commercial marketplace now follow us into the polling booth?
This paper shows how platforms are transient in the policies, procedures, and affordances and details the implications for politics.
The countering of terrorism propaganda online, through private companies, may little by little kill our right to freedom of expression.
Is political micro-targeting hijacking European democracy?
A short Q&A with researchers Tom Dobber and Natali Helberger.