This is what it looks like when you set up a daily scraper for all target audiences used by all political advertisers on Meta in the world.

Department of Justice has now posted its hundreds of great slides from closing arguments. I’ll share 13 slides that tell story imho captured by this list.
First, if search defaults don’t matter, why pay approx $30B, 40% of revenue to maintain them? 1/13

At COMPTEXT Conference, Johannes Gruber showcases {rollama}, an R package enabling local use of LLMs—fully reproducible and no need to expose data. Best thing is: EASY to set up.

I am certainly convinced: if we use LLMs, going local should be encouraged in social science research.

Watch this space 👀

Yesterday at COMPTEXT Conference I talked about group appeals towards people with disabilities and how I want to use BERT models to examine their use by parties.

Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam discussing her impressive work on coder bias: human and LLM-based classification of racism in news 📰 at COMPTEXT Conference

What is the best data source for national election results in Europe that you can crosstab by age, gender, and NUTS-1 (i.e. states, provinces) *combined*?

we have chronic overworking of students in NL and I honestly have been trying almost non-stop for the past 3 years to understand the hows and whys and then reality finally hits me with this contrast

The history of the EU elections through their video campaigns -

1979 - The 1st European and 1st international elections in history.

It was all about hope and writing the future (on the ballot. With a giant pencil)

Rising ⭐️ Christoffer H. Dausgaard presenting our joint paper on group appeals and party reputations at #comptext2024 this AM

Calling all quantitative political scientists: nature Scientific Data is now accepting submissions for a special collection on political/elections 'dataset papers'. 1/5

nature.com/collections/ai…

Great job opportunity. Work with us on 'political influencers.'
APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions , International Communication Association

Our recent paper on toxic political ads, if anyone is still looking for light weekend reading:

New paper with Nadjim Fréchet 🕊️ Alexandra Jabbour Benjamin Ferland & Jonathan Homola now out at Party Politics! The paper studies over-time changes in party responsiveness on left-right and on more specific dimensions. (1/x)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Microtargeting van politieke advertenties is in praktijk niet zo sinister en fijnmazig als het vaak wordt voorgesteld. Aldus grootschalig, wereldwijd onderzoek van Fabio Votta📊🐧 en collega's.