Is highly targeted political advertising changing the way democracy works?

Install the Who Targets Me browser extension and see who’s using Facebook ads to win your vote – and how they’re doing it.

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Localised for use in the UK, EU, US, Canada, Australia, Israel and Ukraine with more countries being added in 2019. Currently available in 20+ languages.

Campaigns use big data and microtargeting to decide who should see their messages.

The billions of ads they buy on social media platforms play a vital role in every modern election campaign.

Yet there is little research in this area because social media companies have only recently started sharing even a portion of data on the subject.

Who Targets Me is working to change that.

Join over 20,000 people in 80+ countries who have seen 66914 ads so far today*.

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* Since midnight GMT

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The software scans your Facebook newsfeed for ‘Sponsored’ posts (ignoring everything else).

The Sponsored posts are matched against categorised lists of political advertisers.

The software then displays a breakdown of the political ads you’re being targeted with and a comparison with how other groups are being targeted.

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