Introduction Political advertisements are one of the main means of informing voters during the election process, which is used to form voters' attitudes/opinions about the election subjects. Political ads placed on social media platforms have an impa ...
This report presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the dissemination of propaganda messagesin the period from September 1 to November 6, 2021 on Facebook pages that had at least five thousandfollowers and published at least one post duri ...
On December 25, it became public knowledge, that a majority of the members of the Parliament of Georgia, without the involvement of other entities, had drafted a legislative initiative to abolish the independent investigative body - the State Inspect ...
The 2021 municipal elections took place against the backdrop of a global pandemic, which again posed a challenge to the organization of elections as well as to the rights of voters and other actors involved in the electoral process. The election was ...
In parallel with the transformation of social media into one of the main sources of information, in recent years, one of the main challenges of the elections has been the manipulation of voters by harmful actors using various strategies and tactics. ...
The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy has published four reports regarding the October 2, 2021 municipal elections, describing and analyzing the ongoing formal and informal election campaigns on social media platforms. In thi ...
The election campaign produced on Facebook is distinguished by discrediting messages. The targets of the negative campaign on the pages are the ruling party, as well as the opposition parties and their leaders. After the first round of the electi ...
The report describes campaigns focused on local political processes from September 13 to Election Day, October 2. The report includes the activities of the political parties participating in the elections, the mayors of the municipalities, as well as ...