Elections

Google, just like Meta, banned political ads in the EU in 2025. We found political ads from Dutch parties in Google’s own Transparency Center. It gets worse: even more ads are being served on news websites through Google’s infrastructure with no trace in their transparency tools at all.

This blog post introduces the transcripts of the U.S. Democratic primary debates available as data in the R package demdebates2020.

I recently got my hands on some German election data and here I play around with it a little bit.