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The distribution of political ads on Facebook in different states based on population. Circle size is the percentage calculated by number of ads in the state divided by total number of ads in the US.
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The reports of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections brought into the center of public attention concerns related to the ability of foreign actors to increase social discord and take advantage of personal user data for political purposes. It has raised questions regarding the ways and the extent to which data can be used to creat...
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... manifest a better insight into the properties of the data, we provide a series of interactive illustrations 5 by leveraging the targeting attributes, in addition to election information collected from online resources. Figure 2 is one of the graphs from this dashboard illustrating the distribution of political ads on Facebook based on geographical information collected from the targeting attributes. According to the map, users in highly populated states (Darker green relative to high regional population) like California, New York, Texas, and Washington are more prone to be targeted by political ads. Figure 3 shows the number of political ads for each of the targeting attributes. ...
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... manifest a better insight into the properties of the data, we provide a series of interactive illustrations 5 by leveraging the targeting attributes, in addition to election information collected from online resources. Figure 2 is one of the graphs from this dashboard illustrating the distribution of political ads on Facebook based on geographical information collected from the targeting attributes. According to the map, users in highly populated states (Darker green relative to high regional population) like California, New York, Texas, and Washington are more prone to be targeted by political ads. Figure 3 shows the number of political ads for each of the targeting attributes. ...
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