UW political ads election 2020 2 (IMAGE)

University of Washington

UW political ads election 2020 2

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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. One tactic that ads used was posing as a poll to collect people's personal information.

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