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Understanding the Complexity of Detecting Political Ads

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00822v2
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 19:23:09 GMT
Title: Understanding the Complexity of Detecting Political Ads
Authors: Vera Sosnovik and Oana Goga
Abstract summary: We take an empirical approach to analyze what kind of ads are deemed political by ordinary people and what kind of ads lead to disagreement. Our results imply that it is important to consider social issue ads as political, but they also complicate political advertising regulations.
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License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Abstract: Online political advertising has grown significantly over the last few years. To monitor online sponsored political discourse, companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter have created public Ad Libraries collecting the political ads that run on their platforms. Currently, both policymakers and platforms are debating further restrictions on political advertising to deter misuses. This paper investigates whether we can reliably distinguish political ads from non-political ads. We take an empirical approach to analyze what kind of ads are deemed political by ordinary people and what kind of ads lead to disagreement. Our results show a significant disagreement between what ad platforms, ordinary people, and advertisers consider political and suggest that this disagreement mainly comes from diverging opinions on which ads address social issues. Overall our results imply that it is important to consider social issue ads as political, but they also complicate political advertising regulations.

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