UW political ads election 2020 3 (IMAGE)

University of Washington

UW political ads election 2020 3

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University of Washington researchers looked at almost 56,000 political ads from almost 750 news sites between September 2020 and January 2021. The most popular type of political ad were click-bait news articles that often mentioned top politicians in sensationalist headlines, but the articles themselves contained no substantial information.

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