Facebook´s transparency is lacking – this is why it still is hard to examine political advertising
J++ and other media have examined the election ads ahead of the EU elections, but the data is lacking on several accounts.
It’s the fragmentation, stupid!
The next five years the European Union will be more fragmented than ever. This fragmentation is the key lesson of the 2019 European elections. However, contrary to the dominant narrative of the last decade or so, the old centrist blocs are not confronted with just a plethora of anti-system populist parties and groups.
European Elections 2019 and Italy’s varying size
Among the many debates that follow elections, there is one that usually gets most attention among data journalists and people with an interest in data visualisation: electoral maps. This is not a purely aesthetic debate, as both newsreaders and political pundits make sense of election results through these maps, reaching often debatable conclusions.A common one,
Facebook has become political parties’ main advertiser
Data shows that in the recent election campaign political parties spent millions of euro on targeted advertising on Facebook. The platform has almost completely replaced meetings and personal contact between candidates and voters.
Yemen is our disaster
By providing weapons to parties in conflict in Yemen, Europeans have a responsibility in the war that has claimed more than 10,000 lives in four years. In this sense, it is also our disaster, explains H-alter.
Counting the preferences
In Italy, much has been said about the winners and losers in the recent European Parliament elections. Much less, however, has been said of the gender and age of the candidates. Here’s an analysis based on the election data.
Chinese money is Europe’s next big challenge
Chinese investments in Europe have reached dizzying heights in the last two decades but, while they pose an appealing opportunity for economic growth to some countries, they are seen as a direct threat by some of the continent’s wealthier states.
A majority of Europeans would rather remain in the EU
Is there any country across the European Union following the Brexit example? Not among the rest of 27 member states. Migration and euro currency crisis, tax policy, and Brexit have not weakened the Europeans believe in the future of the bloc, Eurobarometer shows.
How European parties seek to influence public opinion
Climate, the economy and – immigration. The candidates and parties standing in the European Parliament election are spending millions of euros on election advertising on Facebook. We have checked the contents of around 35,000 adverts from five different countries.
Where are the biggest banks?
Among the European countries with the largest banks are the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
