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Facebook's Political Ad Archive and Web Scraping to Improve It, with Søren Pedersen
Facebook's Political Ad Archive and Web Scraping to Improve It, with Søren Pedersen
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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
Sep 16, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Søren Pedersen, a Danish software developer working for Extra Bladet, joins the podcast to discuss his project uspolads.com. Søren used web scraping technology to build a website that presents data from the Facebook political ad archive ahead of the 2018 US midterm elections. We talk about Søren's motivations in building uspolads, as well as discuss some his previous work using Facebook and Twitter data to reveal insights about politics and tech addiction.
You can check out the Facebook Ad Archive here.
You can check out the Facebook Ad Archive here.
Released:
Sep 16, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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