Get involved in our attempt to track #GE2019 campaigns targeting you.

Here @ruskin147 & I explain how to help: 2 simple screenshots from your Facebook/other feeds

1. The ad
2. “why am i seeing this?”
& if you can hometown/ constituency send to [email protected]
Thanks!

NEW: great response to our call for crowdsourced election ads -rather interesting patterns developing...but @ruskin147 immediately found this news story about mysterious “Fair Tax” campaign targeted at voters who contacted us, and now banned by Facebook https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50296664

Meanwhile - you know what to do - 2 screenshots - one of the ad, and one of “Why are they targeting me?” And send to [email protected]
Thanks! https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1190651647636230145?s=21

NEW: Plot twist.... turns out that the mysterious “fair tax campaign” ad banned by Facebook today for violating its political advertising rules was placed by a longstanding former Boris Johnson aide, Alex Crowley, who was working in Number 10 for PM as recently as 5 weeks ago...

Campaign was registered at Companies House and website created a fortnight after Mr Crowley, who has worked with the PM for many years and wrote a book about Mayoral campaign, left Number 10 at end of September this year...

Immediate cracker @ruskin147 story from our crowdsourced digital election ad initiative - Facebook bans anti-Corbyn attack ad from mysterious “fair tax campaign” that turned out to be run by one of PM’s most long-standing aides, recently with him at No10 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50296664

Day 1 - election digital ad crowdsourcing project - myself and @ruskin147 buried in email traffic kindly supplied by you, the viewer, including mysterious tax campaign pushing a false claim that turned out to be run by a long-standing aide of the PM...

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NEW- Election Ads 100s results
Clear patterns:

- Cons ads on Brexit targeted at “Labour leave” seats
- Labour v general messages using Experian lists
- tonnes of LibDem ads (clearly well funded) aimed at surprisingly large majority Tory seats, eg Goves:

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LibDems targeting @MockTheWeek fans in Surrey Heath on Facebook in an ambitious tilt at the No Deal minister @michaelgove Surrey Heath from 31k behind in third place...
@ruskin147

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Labour sending very general untargeted messages using lists uploaded by data company Experian:

Conservatives targeting first wave of ads at Labour leave marginals -telling individuals in the relevant seats they personally can “get brexit done” - though occasionally with less than laser precision - this ad for Wirral West ended up in Clitheroe, Lancashire...