Leveraging AI for democratic discourse: Chat interventions can improve online political conversations at scale

LP Argyle, CA Bail, EC Busby… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Political discourse is the soul of democracy, but misunderstanding and conflict can fester in
divisive conversations. The widespread shift to online discourse exacerbates many of these …

Quantifying the potential persuasive returns to political microtargeting

BM Tappin, C Wittenberg, LB Hewitt… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Much concern has been raised about the power of political microtargeting to sway voters'
opinions, influence elections, and undermine democracy. Yet little research has directly …

Politics in the Facebook era evidence from the 2016 US presidential elections

F Liberini, M Redoano, A Russo, A Cuevas… - European Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Social media allow political campaigns to reach specific groups of voters with
unprecedented precision, yet the effect on voting behaviour of this political micro-targeting is …

Systematic discrepancies in the delivery of political ads on Facebook and Instagram

D Bär, F Pierri, G De Francisci Morales… - PNAS …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Political advertising on social media has become a central element in election campaigns.
However, granular information about political advertising on social media was previously …

Ai chat assistants can improve conversations about divisive topics

LP Argyle, E Busby, J Gubler, C Bail, T Howe… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A rapidly increasing amount of human conversation occurs online. But divisiveness and
conflict can fester in text-based interactions on social media platforms, in messaging apps …

White Americans' preference for Black people in advertising has increased in the past 66 years: A meta-analysis

JD Lenk, J Hartmann, H Sattler - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
This study investigates Black and White consumers' preferences for Black versus White
people in United States advertising contexts over 66 y, from 1956 until 2022, a time in which …

Political advertisement on Facebook and Instagram in the run up to 2022 Italian general election

F Pierri - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Web Science …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Targeted advertising on online social platforms has become increasingly relevant in the
political marketing toolkit. Monitoring political advertising is crucial to ensure accountability …

User-Centric Behavioral Tracking: Lessons from Three Case Studies with Do-It-Yourself Computational Pipelines

A Zhou, D Metaxa, YM Kim, K Jaidka - Journal of Advertising, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
User-centric behavioral tracking, a cutting-edge computational social science tool, holds
tremendous promise for advertising research. The article introduces the technique and …

Null effects of social media ads on voter registration: Three digital field experiments

A Unan, P John, F Foos… - Research & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Civic organisations and progressive campaigns regard digital advertising as an essential
method to register to vote low-participation groups, such as ethnic minorities, young voters …

Instaworthy? Examining the effects of (targeted) civic education ads on Instagram

E Errenst, A Van Remoortere, S Vermeer… - Media and …, 2023 - cogitatiopress.com
The last few years have witnessed a growing societal and scholarly interest in the potential
of online political microtargeting to affect election outcomes in favor of parties and …