Tag: Election campaigns
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Orbán’s page showed Orbán. The Fidesz page carried the migration campaign.
Six years of Hungarian party pages on Facebook show Fidesz drawing about its share of the vote, and its written migration message living on the party page rather than the leader’s.
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Different campaigns, similar totals: Senate candidates on Facebook in 2020
Does Facebook reward Republicans? In 20 Senate races in 2020, Republican posts drew more shares and comments each, but Democrats posted twice as often and the totals came out even. The bigger difference was in the reactions.
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What does a satellite campaign do? Momentum, Labour and Corbyn on Facebook in 2017
In 2017 Labour campaigned on Facebook through its own page, Jeremy Corbyn’s page and Momentum’s. The party page asked for votes, Momentum asked for time, and Corbyn’s page sat in between, leaning towards the satellite wherever it parted from the party.
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One city, two comment sections: Sadiq Khan’s and Zac Goldsmith’s Facebook comments in 2016
In the 2016 London mayoral race, Sadiq Khan’s and Zac Goldsmith’s Facebook comment sections were about equally toxic. The difference was in the kind of hostility, and in what an automated classifier gets wrong about it.
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The crowd in the comments: who spoke, how hostile it got and what got liked on Trump’s and Clinton’s Facebook pages
I collected 5.3 million comments from Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s Facebook pages in 2016. About one in ten was toxic, week after week. The busiest commenters were not the worst, nastiness did not win likes, and on the same day both candidates’ comment sections were equally toxic.
