US Election Archive

News16 August 2021

Calls for Facebook to make ad targeting data available to researchers

Over 250 researchers, technologists and citizens have called on Facebook to reinstate the accounts of two New York University (NYU) academics researching political advertising and misinformation.

News9 August 2021

HIT Strategies appoints five staff

Public opinion research firm HIT Strategies has had five staff members join the company, including David Kornahrens as senior director of research.

News25 May 2021

Florida bans social media from 'deplatforming' politicians

Liam Kay-McClean

Florida has passed a law aimed at preventing social media companies from permanently banning politicians from their platforms.

News11 May 2021

Liberal US voters 'overrepresented' in surveys

Liberal voters in the US are disproportionally opting into polls, which is skewing polling data in the country, according to analysis from polling firm Data for Progress.

News18 March 2021

Brands in a polarised world: ‘we’re not operating in a shared truth’

Ben Bold

Brands today operate in a world split between reality and an irreality where the notion of absolute truth is undermined by a conflation of opinion with fact, a topic under the microscope during a panel at Impact 2021.

News25 January 2021

Citizenship information will not be included in US census data

Following an executive order from US president Joe Biden, data released from the 2020 census will not include information on citizenship or immigration, the Census Bureau has said.

News11 January 2021

Social media could face regulation after Trump ban

Liam Kay-McClean

UK health secretary Matt Hancock has suggested that social media firms could face greater regulation in the wake of Donald Trump’s removal from platforms such as Twitter, as the companies were making “editorial decisions”.

News14 December 2020

Insights Association calls for census funding and extension

Liam Kay-McClean

The Insights Association (IA), the trade body for the US market research industry, has requested that 2020 census data reporting deadlines be extended by the incoming Joe Biden administration.

Feature18 November 2020

What does the US election tell us about the future of polling?

Liam Kay-McClean

The polling industry has come under renewed scrutiny after Joe Biden’s election victory. How should the industry respond?

News17 November 2020

Facebook extends US political ad ban

Facebook has temporarily extended measures aimed at combating misinformation in the wake of the US election, including pausing political ads.