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.
Filtered results
Personalised political messaging undermines voter autonomy and the electoral process. Use of voter analytics for political communication must be regulated.
This paper discusses how online political micro-targeting is regulated in Europe, from the perspective of data protection law, freedom of expression, and political advertising rules.
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?
Political micro-targeting
Is political micro-targeting hijacking European democracy?
A short Q&A with researchers Tom Dobber and Natali Helberger.
Net neutrality
French parliament forms a committee on digital affairs
The French parliament has just decided to set up a Commission du numérique (Committee on digital affairs). This could change the course of European internet policy.
