Tag: Populism & radical parties
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Equal on Facebook? Big parties, small parties and who gets the attention
Engagement followed votes, but less than proportionally, and the largest party rarely had the most engagement. Facebook reordered attention more than it levelled it.
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Loudest at the edges: Belgian politicians on Facebook before the 2019 election
Before Belgium’s 2019 election, Vlaams Belang politicians’ Facebook pages drew 48% of all interactions on 121 politicians’ pages, against 12% of the vote. A new paper maps where the engagement gathered.
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Which French parties were louder on Facebook than at the ballot box?
Before the 2017 presidential first round, one small French party drew 13% of party-page engagement on Facebook while its candidate won 0.9% of the vote. A new paper compares engagement and votes across three elections.
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Not a forecast: the Scandinavian radical right on Facebook
In Sweden and Norway the radical right drew two to three times its poll share of party Facebook engagement, every month. But that told you almost nothing about where its support was going.
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Launched the same week: what Facebook showed about Podemos and Vox
Podemos and Vox were both presented in Madrid in January 2014. Both drew a huge share of Spanish party Facebook long before they did well in the polls. But Facebook was a poor guide to how many votes they would win, or when.
