Tag: Spain
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Spain’s governing parties were the quietest on Facebook
In Spain, the parties that led the country’s governments drew a fraction of their vote on Facebook, while the challengers drew two to three times theirs. A new paper uses my doctoral CrowdTangle data to look at leaders, party pages and elections from 2015 to 2020.
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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.
