by Haley Corzo | Mar 7, 2024 | Digital Journalism
More than half the world’s population in at least 76 countries will go to the polls this year, making 2024 the year of global elections. As election coverage begins to intensify, we’ll be exploring the topics and issues that dominate the political landscape. We’ve...
by Glynis Ratcliffe | Jul 26, 2022 | Digital Journalism
With the U.S. midterm elections around the corner on November 8, Americans have a lot of different election issues on their minds. What might those topics be and how do they wax and wane in importance over an election cycle? Using data from various sources, news...
by Benedict Nicholson | Jan 25, 2021 | Digital Journalism, Brands
The storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump agitators was an event that shook American politics to its core, with the media and the public watching on in horror as members of Congress had to flee for their lives after rioters broke through the Capitol police defenses. ...
by UMICH Center for Social Media Responsibility | Nov 16, 2020 | Digital Journalism
At the University of Michigan Center for Social Media Responsibility (CSMR), we publish and monitor a metric we call the Iffy Quotient—the fraction of the most popular URLs on Facebook and Twitter that come from “Iffy” sites that often publish...
by Benedict Nicholson | Jul 2, 2019 | Digital Journalism
Last week we launched a partnership with Axios to measure which candidates and topics are driving the most engagement in the run up to the 2020 election. The Democratic debates coincided with the launch of this initiative, so we began by looking at the candidates for...
by Benedict Nicholson | May 24, 2018 | Digital Journalism
There has been lots of noise about ideologically motivated censorship of politicians on Facebook this year. We looked at the data to determine the facts of the matter. At the beginning of 2018, there’s been a good deal of controversy about unfairly censored voices...
by NewsWhip | Dec 4, 2017 | Digital Journalism
A slew of new partisan political sites has gone viral in 2017. What do they have in common? The year since the U.S. election has seen more attention than ever on the links between politics and social media. Social platforms are no longer just marketing add-ons for...
by NewsWhip | Nov 7, 2017 | Digital Journalism
The impressive growth of political site the Hill across social media has been obvious in recent months. What’s behind its success? In late September, a story about tax policy went viral on Facebook news feeds, racking up around 170,000 total engagements on the...
by NewsWhip | Mar 22, 2017 | Interviews, Digital Journalism
CNN’s Facebook engagement has grown as a result of engagement with their political news coverage in the last year. We take a closer look at the data, and talk to their Director of Social Publishing to learn more. On election night last November,...
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