UW political ads election 2020 1 (IMAGE)

University of Washington

UW political ads election 2020 1

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University of Washington researchers looked at almost 56,000 political ads from almost 750 news sites between September 2020 and January 2021. These ads used multiple tactics that concerned the researchers, including posing as a poll to collect people's personal information or having headlines that might affect web surfers' views of candidates.

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