A full year has passed since Donald Trump was elected president, yet the campaign of 2016 will not end. The president remains obsessed with it, Democrats are still wrangling over a bitter primary contest and a shocking loss in the general election, and analysts are still trying to understand better […] Read more »
Why Russia’s Facebook ad campaign wasn’t such a success
… Despite all the focus in the past week on ads, compared to friend-to-friend sharing, a relatively small share of the Russian campaign was driven by advertising. Just 10 million of the people reached came in through the advertising campaign, out of 29 million who directly read Russian posts in […] Read more »
Voter Trends in 2016
The unprecedented and largely unanticipated election of Republican candidate Donald Trump as president of the United States in 2016 set off intense debates about how his victory was achieved and which factors mattered most in determining the outcome. … For this project, we developed original turnout and support estimates by […] Read more »
49% of Americans think Trump likely committed a crime
About half of respondents in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll suspect that President Donald Trump himself broke the law during the presidential campaign and just three in 10 Americans think that alleged wrongdoing ends with those who were charged this week by the special counsel. CONT. Gary Langer, ABC […] Read more »
How Russian Bots and Trolls Invade Our Lives — and Elections
How do bots and trolls work to infiltrate social media platforms and influence U.S. elections? We take a closer look at these insidious online pests to explain how they work. Natalia V. Osipova & Aaron Byrd, New York Times Read more »
The Russian connection
Donald Trump, and those who apparently see lying on his behalf as a sacred duty, are desperate to demonstrate: • That his campaign did not “collude” with Russia • That Americans don’t care about Russia’s efforts to influence our election • That the Russians had no impact on the outcome […] Read more »