Datasets and code for the WWW 2021 paper: Understanding the Complexity of Detecting Political Ads


Code for our classifiers

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AdAnalyst data

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Data labeled on Prolific

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Groups of advertisers categories

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Service to explore disagreement in political ads labeling


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Terms and Conditions

  1. You will use the data solely for the purpose of non-profit research or non-profit education.

  2. You will respect the privacy of end users and organizations that may be identified in the data. You will not attempt to reverse engineer, decrypt, de-anonymize, derive or otherwise re-identify anonymized information.

  3. You will not distribute the data beyond your immediate research group.

  4. If you create a publication using our datasets, please cite our paper as follows. 

@inproceedings{10.1145/3366423.3380109,
author = {Vera, Sosnovik and Oana, Goga},
title = {Understanding the Complexity of Detecting Political Ads},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1145/3442381.3450049},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 (WWW '21), April 19--23, 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia},
location = {Ljubljana, Slovenia},
series = {WWW ’21}
}