Political advertising online and offline

EF Fowler, MM Franz, GJ Martin… - American Political …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Despite the rapid growth of online political advertising, the vast majority of scholarship on
political advertising relies exclusively on evidence from candidates' television …

Ad delivery algorithms: The hidden arbiters of political messaging

M Ali, P Sapiezynski, A Korolova, A Mislove… - Proceedings of the 14th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Political campaigns are increasingly turning to targeted advertising platforms to inform and
mobilize potential voters. The appeal of these platforms stems from their promise to …

“Reach the right people”: The politics of “interests” in Facebook's classification system for ad targeting

K Cotter, M Medeiros, C Pak, K Thorson - Big Data & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Political campaigns increasingly rely on Facebook for reaching their constituents,
particularly through ad targeting. Facebook's business model is premised on a promise to …

Boosting people's ability to detect microtargeted advertising

P Lorenz-Spreen, M Geers, T Pachur, R Hertwig… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Online platforms' data give advertisers the ability to “microtarget” recipients' personal
vulnerabilities by tailoring different messages for the same thing, such as a product or …

A security analysis of the facebook ad library

L Edelson, T Lauinger, D McCoy - 2020 IEEE Symposium on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Actors engaged in election disinformation are using online advertising platforms to spread
political messages. In response to this threat, online advertising networks have started …

Platform ad archives: Promises and pitfalls

P Leerssen, J Ausloos, B Zarouali… - Internet Policy …, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper discusses the new phenomenon of platform ad archives. Over the past year,
leading social media platforms have installed publicly accessible databases documenting …

(Tar) getting you: The use of online political targeted messages on Facebook

S Kruikemeier, S Vermeer, N Metoui… - Big Data & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines how mainstream political actors and other organizations use political
targeted messages. For this purpose, a data set from ProPublica is used. The study …

How algorithms shape the distribution of political advertising: Case studies of Facebook, Google, and TikTok

O Papakyriakopoulos, C Tessono… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Online platforms play an increasingly important role in shaping democracy by influencing
the distribution of political information to the electorate. In recent years, political campaigns …

Facebook as a political marketing tool in an illiberal context. Mapping political advertising activity on Facebook during the 2019 Hungarian European Parliament and …

M Bene, M Petrekanics, M Bene - Journal of Political Marketing, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The research examines political advertising on Facebook during the 2019 European and
local election campaigns in Hungary. Previously, political advertising had been difficult to …

News from the ad archive: How journalists use the Facebook Ad Library to hold online advertising accountable

P Leerssen, T Dobber, N Helberger… - Information …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Facebook Ad Library promises to improve transparency and accountability
in online advertising by rendering personalised campaigns visible to the public. This article …