Reddit: Suspected Russian disinformation campaign ahead of UK election
7
Dec
Social media company says release of British government documents connected to previous disinformation efforts.
Category Archives: Social Media
How Jeremy Corbyn’s activist army is taking lessons from the US
4
Dec
British leftists are sharing ideas and strategies with former members of the Bernie Sanders campaign.
Report linking Labour leak to Russia reveals weakness of UK electoral system
3
Dec
New analysis points out similarities between leak to Jeremy Corbyn’s party and Russian disinformation operation.
Six charts that explain the UK’s digital election campaign
29
Nov
POLITICO teamed up with researchers from NYU to crunch the numbers about how British political groups are spending money on Facebook.
New anti-Brexit group forms after People’s Vote row
26
Nov
Vote for a Final Say launch follows infighting among pro-EU campaigns.
Twitter warns UK Tories over attempt to ‘mislead’ voters
20
Nov
The party rebranded its press account ‘factcheckUK’ during a leaders’ election debate Tuesday night.
Shabnam Nasimi: The Conservative Manifesto must include measures to grapple with online extremism
16
Nov
Tech companies who don’t clean up their platforms should be prepared to face the force of the law.
UK political parties test legal limits to woo voters online
14
Nov
Decades-old campaign financing rules make it harder to distinguish between national and local spending, and keep track of who’s buying election ads on social media.
Line Kristensen: Five ways for candidates to run a winning digital campaign
14
Nov
Social media is under scrutiny as never before, but there are still simple techniques you can use to connect with crucial voters.
We need to talk about A/B testing: Brexit, attack ads and the election campaign
13
Nov
With the general election a month away, how are the parties targeting voters on Facebook with messages about Brexit? Tristan Hotham (University of Bath) explains how A/B testing is being used to identify the most effective campaign themes. Political parties using Facebook ads have a powerful capacity to hone their messages. Unlike in the past – where expensive and hard-to-organise […]
Twitter fake publicity boost for Brexit Party candidate
12
Nov
The victim of a social media hoax now hopes to use the incident to his own advantage.
Social media transparency data is giving real time insight on party strategy at #GE2019
9
Nov
The upcoming general election is the first general election in the UK where social media companies are publishing transparency data, showing which political advertisements are being displayed on the platforms, who is paying for them, and the amounts being spent. Facebook is, by far, the largest platform for social media political advertisements in the UK. In the first full week of the campaign to the 4th of November, there was £175k of spending on campaign related advertisements on the platform, … Read more
How to watch the UK election like a pro
7
Nov
It is the most important UK election for a generation — here’s POLITICO’s essential guide to the campaign.
Robert Halfon: I’ve been told that, if Corbyn wins, the Conservative Party and I will be sued for negligence
6
Nov
“Now I want a nice clean game from all of you” – so said Madam Hooch in Harry Potter. The reality is, it’s not going to happen.
UK ignores warnings of digital election interference
5
Nov
Despite repeated calls for new electoral rules, British politicians and regulators have dragged their feet.
James says to Johnson: “I trust in your One Nation outlook”. Why her farewell letter to him is well worth reading.
4
Nov
By creating a kind of firewall between her take on Brexit and her view of everything else, she has kept her head at a time when too many others are losing theirs.
Brexit: democracy needs journalists to be transparent about their political sources
29
Oct
Twitter is more popular among Remainers – 18% of them get their news via 280 characters, as opposed to 10% of Leave voters. But, for other social networks, the differences are smaller and not statistically significant in most cases. The problems of polarisation – and of silos – are created by journalists and politicians themselves, write Meera Selva and Richard […]
Brexit Britain politics doesn’t have to be this hostile
27
Sep
Tracy Brabin, who took over Jo Cox’s seat after the Labour MP was murdered, appeals to Boris Johnson to tone down his rhetoric.
The NI Department of Justice #EndingTheHarm campaign viewed over a million times on Snapchat in August 2019
19
Sep
Transparency data released this week by ephemeral messaging app Snapchat has shown that the NI Department of Justice #EndingTheHarm campaign made over a million impressions over an 18 day period last month. The campaign, part of the Tackling Paramilitarism programme, made 1,138,048 impressions over the course of the campaign. Of the 15 organizations who had political campaigns on the social network in the UK over the course of 2019 so far, it ranked 8th in terms of impressions behind Police … Read more
WATCH: “This is Boris here.” Prime Ministerial communication is breaking new ground
16
Sep
The latest in Johnson’s social media game – a casual, chatty take on last week, made direct from an airplane seat. Expect more.
Britain’s election is alive and kicking online
13
Sep
The UK has yet to call a snap election, as expected. But on social media, political groups are already highly active.
Jonathan Clark: Brexit. Is democracy at risk?
8
Sep
Two different conceptions of it are widely held in the UK, representative and direct. In 2019, they collide.
Johnson bypasses the broadcasters to talk directly to voters
9
Aug
Last night’s policy announcement live on Facebook was a first experiment in new ways for the Government to communicate its message.