We found that Americans who see news coverage that shows generic “line” images at polling places are less likely to say they will vote in future elections.
Rather than hastily address issues in the months leading up to big events where we expected lots of reader traffic, we decided to take stock of our systems as a whole and enact longer term resilience measures.
Plus: Unions keep fighting for parental leave, BBC journalists may no longer be allowed to attend marches, and “POC really flattens class experience, even amongst people who are nominally part of the same racial group.”
There’s good evidence that some people find predictive models like FiveThirtyEight’s confusing, and an argument that they might keep people from voting. But 2016’s scars shouldn’t mean that voters have to be kept in the dark.
Owen, Laura Hazard. "ProPublica’s Facebook-monitoring political ad tool (which Facebook fought) is alive again with a new home at the Globe and Mail." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 7 Jun. 2019. Web. 24 Sep. 2023.
APA
Owen, L. (2019, Jun. 7). ProPublica’s Facebook-monitoring political ad tool (which Facebook fought) is alive again with a new home at the Globe and Mail. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved September 24, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/06/propublicas-facebook-monitoring-political-ad-tool-which-facebook-fought-is-alive-again-with-a-new-home-at-the-globe-and-mail/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "ProPublica’s Facebook-monitoring political ad tool (which Facebook fought) is alive again with a new home at the Globe and Mail." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified June 7, 2019. Accessed September 24, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/06/propublicas-facebook-monitoring-political-ad-tool-which-facebook-fought-is-alive-again-with-a-new-home-at-the-globe-and-mail/.
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