Over the recent period, ISFED has investigated various types of technics designed for spreading disinformation and propaganda in social media. One of the mentioned tactics includes information-boosting by pro-government and false media outlets, based ...
The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy has been monitoring ongoing social media campaigns since 2018 in the context of elections. This report presents the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the discrediting campaign of the l ...
Similar to the 2020 parliamentary elections, the 2021 municipal elections were held during the Covid-19 pandemic, which increased the role of social media in the election campaigning in Georgia. The importance of the social network in the electo ...
Findings from the ongoing monitoring of social media in the 2018-2021 general national elections indicate that political parties and anonymous internal and external actors are making every effort to influence voter behavior and attitudes. Reproductio ...
After being removed by Facebook (Meta) several times, having moved to other platforms and creating a TV channel, Alt-Info became active again on Facebook. This time, the pro-Russian group has found an easier and more stable way to reach Facebook audi ...
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Introduction Political advertisements are one of the main means of informing voters during the election process, which is used to form voters' attitudes/opinions about the election subjects. Political ads placed on social media platforms have an impa ...
This report presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the dissemination of propaganda messagesin the period from September 1 to November 6, 2021 on Facebook pages that had at least five thousandfollowers and published at least one post duri ...