Fabio Votta📊🐧

Computational Communication Scientist #rstats | Postdoc @UvA_ASCoR | Blog: | Running on plant-based fuel 🌱 | he/him | 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 in 🇳🇱

[Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats]

Are you a researcher who studies data-driven campaigning? Do you want to analyze the actual targeting criteria used by political parties to reach citizens during elections?
Introducing {metatargetr} an #rstats📦that interfaces with the Meta Ad Library
https://t.co/PvpF8ANc1J

[Who Targets Me @WhoTargetsMe]

After many months work, we launched a major new version of our Trends political ad tracking platform this morning.

Take a look (and let us know your feedback - we'd love to hear from you):
https://t.co/G3S1OmWE77

[Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats]

🚀 This weekend we launched the CampAIgn Tracker 🇳🇱!

@meinungsfuehrer & I are glad to finally publish our dashboard where we monitor the use of AI imagery in campaign messages, by parties, politicians & others during the election #tk2025

See here https://t.co/gsZenL0iGF

[Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats]

@seanjwestwood @BrendanNyhan @paulnovosad BTW my argument is not that nobody ever made any mistakes in handling Trump. But the moment this man, a clear authoritarian who doesn't respect democracy, got to have the awesome powers of the presidency, we were already strongly pushed on the current trajectory with little room.

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@seanjwestwood @BrendanNyhan @paulnovosad What I am saying is the threat was there from the beginning even if nobody had called him or his policies fascist ever. He made it clear he would have NEVER accepted defeat at the ballot box & he always wanted to jail his opponents. We would essentially be on the same trajectory.

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@imtweetn @Shayan86 There is zero evidence there is any connection to transgender people at this moment.

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@ZaidJilani @SohrabAhmari An even better showcase of the internet brainrot he has is this: https://t.co/u6foj1trr6

[Know Your Meme @knowyourmeme]

"Notices Bulge / OwO What's This?" - This is the original meme referenced by Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk's alleged shooter.

[Andrew Arenge @MrArenge]

One key stories for 2026 is going to be control of the House

Facebook & Instagram allow advertisers to targeted specific CDs but make it challenging to see all of the targeted activity

So I parsed the data & created a new resource that does just that: https://t.co/nbvtPk4xwu

[Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats]

Within 2 years of campagining Donald Trump promised he would end the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 24 hours, or even before taking office.

Here I visualize @cnn's timeline of 53 empty promises that fact-checker @ddale8 put together.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

President Trump, who told Time he was speaking “figuratively” and “in jest” when he’d promised to end the war in Ukraine by his first 24 hours back in office, specifically emphasized during the campaign that he was speaking literally and seriously.

[Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats]

Bullet holes in the walls of the Caserne de la Cité, from the Battle of Paris. It looks like it could have been yesterday.

All of Europe once burned. It wasn't that long ago. Peace is not permanent.

[Kiran Garimella @gvrkiran]

Interesting dataset of over 15,000 ads collected during the 2024 elections offers strong evidence of ongoing issues with clickbait political messaging on news websites. These ad ecosystems are hard to study because of their ephemeral nature. great dataset

https://t.co/MOFvgYlsNL

[Tom Dobber @TomDobber]

🏛️ Promotieplaats! Lijkt het je interessant om onderzoek te doen naar de invloed van smartphonegebruik op het politieke wereldbeeld van jongeren? Bekijk dan onderstaande vacature. https://t.co/6ezNSN8Civ

[Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats]

@A_Ra_Berlin @JulianRoepcke Oh das passiert noch dieses Jahr

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@SpencrGreenberg Interesting to see 9/11 on the right. My guess is that actually switched from left to right over the years.

[Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats]

@SpencrGreenberg It's interesting to see and a good endeavor. But now I am curious about the comparison like for example looking at Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman in the same timeframe to see whether this is unusually wrong. Not that I'm saying you should put in more work! Just curious.

[Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats]

Always interesting to see: more money is spent on political ads in the U.S. during non-election periods than during the final 30 days before elections in many other countries, such as Germany.

[Andrew Arenge @MrArenge]

UPDATE: Still seeing big differences in the amount spent daily on Meta ads linking to ActBlue vs WinRed

Political advertisers spent $9M on ActBlue ads this year ($7.1M over last month) vs $62K on WinRed ads (36K over last month)

Biggest advertiser? AOC

Spent $1.2M so far

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@DylanBurns1776 Putin could literally stop the dying any moment.

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This meme is cat-checked by real Larry the Cat patriots.

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Correction: Putin can stop the tram at any moment and stop the carnage but he refuses because he has not yet succeeded in re-establishing a new Russian empire based on blood and soil.

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@Number10cat @elonmusk This meme is cat-checked by real Larry the Cat patriots.

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@Number10cat @elonmusk Putin is literally driving that tram and could stop killing people whenever he wants.