Tag: Online engagement
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Do populists win on Facebook? Ten years of party pages across Europe
I looked at 669,760 posts from party pages in 17 European countries. Populist parties got about two and a half times the engagement of comparable parties, but mostly because they built bigger audiences, and not in every country.
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What went viral on Britain First’s Facebook page? A new paper from my PhD archive
Facebook deleted Britain First’s page in March 2018. I hold a post-level record of it, extracted two days before the ban. A new paper uses it to show what the page’s audience rewarded and what it ignored.
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The Facebook followers of the leader and party pages of the UK (2010 to 2021)
The Facebook followers of leader and party pages of UK political parties from 2010 to 2021. Post Corbyn, the Tories are now dominating. While, some parties such as the Green Party have not grown in followership since 2018, while UKIP is going backwards.
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Two trains slowing to a crawl? Biden and Trump’s Facebook pages: a roundup
Summary Trump has won in the head to head battle between his personal Facebook page and Biden‘s across all engagement metrics. This is seen across total engagement and when averaging engagement to remove Trump’s big advantage from increased levels of posting. Biden has gone backwards compared to Clinton, and Trump is only matching his 2016…
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Where are Trump and Biden’s Facebook followers located?
Where are Trump and Biden’s Facebook followers located? 2020 data shows Trump (67%) has far fewer US based followers than Biden (88%). This is a reversal of 2016 data that showed Trump having many more US based followers (75% US) than Clinton (56%).
