Clandestino or Rifugiato?Anti-immigration Facebook Ad Targeting in Italy✱
Clandestino or Rifugiato?Anti-immigration Facebook Ad Targeting in Italy✱
Monitoring advertising around controversial issues is an important step in ensuring accountability and transparency of political processes. To that end, we use the Facebook Ads Library to collect 2312 migration-related advertising campaigns in Italy over one year. Our pro- and anti-immigration classifier (F1=0.85) reveals a partisan divide among the major …