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30 March 2021

Старокозацька, або Дніпровський квартал онлайн-агітації

09 March 2021

Політична реклама в соцмережах. Вибори Черкаського міського голови

03 March 2021

Elections in the Districts, Cut-Off Television Channels and Ambitions of Returning to “Big-League Politics”. Monitoring of Political Ads on Facebook for February, 2021

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24 February 2021

How “Medvedchuk’s Channels” Went Online

Hardly have the TV screens cooled down when the channels banned by the Presidential Decree such as 112, ZIK and NEWSONE shifted to other broadcasting platforms. In addition to traditional methods, such as going on air on YouTube and posting news on their websites, the media resorted to social media they hardly used before to engage with their audiences. In this coverage, OPORA is trying to explore into how the broadcasting ban impacted their activity on Facebook, and whether the ban for broad...

19 February 2021

Перші рішення Наглядової ради, дотримання стандартів та обмеження кількості політичного контенту: новини Facebook

Ні для кого не секрет, що соціальні мережі, а особливо в умовах пандемії, стали для багатьох людей вельми важливим каналом комунікації та отримання інформації. Серед українців найпопулярніша соціальна мережа — Facebook. ОПОРА займається моніторингом політичної агітації та дезінформації, яка траслюється в українському сегменті Facebook. А зараз хочемо поділитися кількома останніми новинами про рішення та ініціативи найбільша у світі соціальної мережі, котрі варті уваги.

03 February 2021

Greetings, Elections, and Personal Data Collection. Monitoring of Facebook Political Ads in January 2021

OPORA analyzed the political ads in the Ukrainian segment of Facebook in January* 2021 and concluded that in this month the content was promoted by 1,054 pages that invested into 7,938 posts from USD 151,076 to 231,563**.

18 January 2021

“Campaign Silent Days” in the Facebook Era: Needed or Needless?

Місцеві вибори 2020 року стали для українського політичного середовища справжнім викликом. Окрім зміни виборчої системи та обмежень, введених через пандемію COVID-19, вибори запам’ятаються величезними сумами, які партії та кандидати витрачали на власну агітацію в Інтернеті. Більше того рекламна кампанія деяких партій і політиків у соціальних мережах спостерігалась і у так звані “дні тиші” – період часу, коли поширення будь-якої агітації заборонене.

16 October 2020

Personal Stories, IQ Tests for Politicians and the Subway to Troyeshchyna: Facebook Campaigning Overview of Kyiv City Mayoral Candidates (5.09 – 12.10)

About 20 candidates are running for the position of a city mayor of Kyiv, both self-nominated, and party-promoted. In addition to advertisements in the streets and leaflets in mail boxes, most of them were trying to win voters’ support through campaigning in social media, such as Facebook. According to OPORA monitoring, Kyiv candidates are most active in this social media: they share campaigning materials from their own pages, from party pages, and from anonymous profiles alike. In this artic...

23 September 2020

“Do you wOnt change?” Monitoring of Political Ads on Facebook over September, 1—15,

What party or candidate spent the most, who shares ads with mistakes, and what Ukrainian party paid for Facebook ads in RUB. In the beginning of autumn, most politicians and political forces planning to run for local elections have become more active in social media. OPORA has explored activity levels of political parties on Facebook in June to August, 2020. The analysis of expenses incurred by political forces in the first half of September shows that some of them spent for advertising i...

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16 September 2020

Fitness center advertisement with the party-related undertones. How the political parties advertised themselves on Facebook in summer, 2020

What parties pent the most on political ads on Facebook, what region is most interesting for the OPFL, what the age group of women most attractive for the Shariy Party.

03 September 2020

Half a million dollars on Facebook advertising a month. Political parties were the most generous in August

Monitoring of Facebook's political advertising in August confirms that elections are very close. The unofficial election campaign of 2020 local elections has already started on social networks. For example, pages of six political parties at once are in the top ten largest advertisers of the month for the first time in 2020.

04 August 2020

Fake sociology and a record-breaking 15 thousand on advertising. Review of political ads on Facebook in July 2020

Civil Network OPORA has been monitoring advertising on Facebook and Instagram public pages of politicians and parties since the beginning of 2020. Since March 18, 2019, all policy-related advertisements are stored in the Library of political advertising (Facebook Ad Library). To place it, a person needs to undergo the identification procedure. Besides that, each advertiser must indicate the source of funding for advertising. If the customer of the promotional service has failed to do so, arti...

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