Political adverts on social media actually can enhance a candidate’s reputation, in line with an evaluation of German election outcomes that implies swaying a single voter requires round €4 of promoting spend.
Dominik Bär at Ludwig Maximilian College of Munich in Germany and his colleagues analysed greater than 21,000 Fb and Instagram adverts posted by German political events within the run-up to the 2021 federal elections. “We had been concerned about how these events are promoting and the way it associated to the to the…