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By Minali Aggarwal, Sylvan Zheng, Sol Messing, Dan Frankowski, James Barnes, & the Barometer Team at ACRONYM Do messages criticizing Donald Trump’s performance on Covid-19 reduce his support among…
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- Learning from Facebook’s Emoji Reactions to Predict Persuasion Effects of Political Ads Do messages criticizing Donald Trump’s performance on Covid-19 reduce his support among swing voters?
- That work suggests that an ad with a greater share of “angry” and “sad” reactions might indicate our ads working as intended — decreasing Donald Trump’s approval.
- We also took a close look at some of our worst and best ads.
- Just as Thompson exposed the rise of Fascism in Germany in the 1930s, we hoped our model would help us identify the best journalism to convey Trump’s anti-Democratic tendencies and incompetence.