Citizen Browser: Germany’s Far-Right Political Party, the AfD, Is Dominating Facebook This Election

This repository contains data from the story "Germany’s Far-Right Political Party, the AfD, Is Dominating Facebook This Election" from from our series, Citizen Browser. Citizen Browser construction and methodology is described in "How We Built a Facebook Inspector."

Data

The data/ directory contains two csv files with data from the story.

1. political-page-counts.csv contains political pages that appeared on our panel's timelines from July 20 through Sept. 16, 2021.
2. covid-tags.csv contains counts of posts by poster that were tagged by Facebook for containing COVID-19-related content.
3. SZ-panel-counts.csv gives a count of panelists that contributed Facebook captures to this analysis and their self-identified party affiliation.

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Data in csv 1 is arranged as follows:

column	decription
party	The party assigned to the post based on party keyword found in poster name
poster	Name of the Facebook page that published the post
user_count	The number of unique users who saw posts from this poster
post_count	The number of posts by the poster that appeared on the panel's Facebook timelines between July 20 and Sept. 16

Data in csv 2 is arranged as follows:

column	decription
party	The party assigned to the post based on party keyword found in poster name
poster	Name of the Facebook page that published the post
flag_count	The number of posts by the poster that appeared on the panel's Facebook timelines between July 20 and Sept. 16 and were flagged for content related to COVID-19