Add to ORKGSafeguarding democratic elections is hard. Social media plays a vital role in the discourse around elections and during electoral campaigns. The following article provides an analysis of the ‘systemic electoral risks’ created by Twitter and Facebook and the mitigation strategies employed by the platforms. It is based on the 2020 proposal by the European Commission for the new Digital Services Act (DSA) in the context of the 2021 German federal elections. This article focuses on Twitter and Facebook and their roles during the German federal elections that took place on 26 September 2021. We analysed three systemic electoral risk categories: 1) the dissemination of illegal content, 2) negative effects on electoral rights, and 3) the influence...
This article examines social media as a relatively new tool of electoral and political activity aime...
Social network platforms play a central role in modern campaign planning. This article describes the...
In this RISJ factsheet we analyse 720,799 news-related tweets from a larger dataset of 4.4 million t...
Safeguarding democratic elections is hard. Social media plays a vital role in the discourse around e...
In 2018, the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica case raised serious concerns on the impact of data protect...
During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown’s experienced in many of the nations of the world, social medi...
This policy paper offers a brief overview of the hazards for digital democracy stemming from AI and ...
Despite its rather modest number of users, Twitter has gained a certain status as platform for on-ti...
Concern over online interference in elections is now widespread—from the fallout of the Cambridge An...
The advent of social media changed the way we consume content, favoring a disintermediated access to...
Content moderation on social media is at the center of public and academic debate. In this study, w...
Since the North American presidential election of 2016, the role of social media on the propagation ...
As more and more people use social media to communicate their view and perception of elections, res...
There is global concern about the impact that ‘fake news’ has on democratic decision-making processe...
A body of research has established the political relevance of Social Media (SM) platforms for populi...
This article examines social media as a relatively new tool of electoral and political activity aime...
Social network platforms play a central role in modern campaign planning. This article describes the...
In this RISJ factsheet we analyse 720,799 news-related tweets from a larger dataset of 4.4 million t...
Safeguarding democratic elections is hard. Social media plays a vital role in the discourse around e...
In 2018, the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica case raised serious concerns on the impact of data protect...
During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown’s experienced in many of the nations of the world, social medi...
This policy paper offers a brief overview of the hazards for digital democracy stemming from AI and ...
Despite its rather modest number of users, Twitter has gained a certain status as platform for on-ti...
Concern over online interference in elections is now widespread—from the fallout of the Cambridge An...
The advent of social media changed the way we consume content, favoring a disintermediated access to...
Content moderation on social media is at the center of public and academic debate. In this study, w...
Since the North American presidential election of 2016, the role of social media on the propagation ...
As more and more people use social media to communicate their view and perception of elections, res...
There is global concern about the impact that ‘fake news’ has on democratic decision-making processe...
A body of research has established the political relevance of Social Media (SM) platforms for populi...
This article examines social media as a relatively new tool of electoral and political activity aime...
Social network platforms play a central role in modern campaign planning. This article describes the...
In this RISJ factsheet we analyse 720,799 news-related tweets from a larger dataset of 4.4 million t...