While Epolitics.com was well into its post-election hiatus in December, I awoke briefly from an editorial slumber to write in Campaigns & eletions about the strange year political data had in 2016. My definition of “data” was...
Yesterday we looked at Donald Trump’s sophisticated Facebook infrastructure, which included targeted “dark posts” and an impressive program to recruit supporters and test content on a massive scale (175,000 variants in one day!)...
Facebook’s come in for plenty of criticism since Election Day, in part for its role in helping fake election news stories and conspiracy theories spread online in the months before Trump’s victory. But did the vast social network help...
Stuck in line at the polls? Relieve your boredom on Facebook. Unsure who’s running for anything other than president? Hello, Mr. Google. American voters will pull out their phones millions of times on Election Day, giving candidates hungry for...
If you can pull yourself away from desperately refreshing political news websites today, head over to Campaigns and Elections for a longer view of our political landscape. In this month’s Technology Bytes, we step back and think about the...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the 2016 presidential campaigns! The data is via our friends at CrowdTangle, and remember that these aren’t the top-performing posts in ABSOLUTE terms, since that would...
I wrote this in June, right after Brexit passed. Reposted now, five days before Election Day, with foreboding. Brexit! In our latest sign of populist political dissatisfaction, the British chose last night to leave the European Union. Voters in...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the 2016 presidential campaigns! The data is via our friends at CrowdTangle, and remember that these aren’t the top-performing posts in ABSOLUTE terms, since that would...
A year ago, we covered the debut of the Clinton campaign’s Twitter posse. Now that we’re in debate season, we get to watch her rally the troops. Pre-debate, her team sends out preparatory messages, like this one that arrived today...
Watch those hands, Robbie! Via Shaun Dakin, important news about Trump’s and Clinton’s social-media support around the last presidential debate: A University of Oxford study indicates [Trump] may have had some help in the form of pro...