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    Data problems and updates to the website

    If you’re a regular visitor to the dashboard, blog or reader of the newsletter, you may have noticed some issues with the site the last few weeks. A few weeks ago, we identified some issues with our collections. We have now corrected the issues, and removed incorrect blog posts that contained inaccuracies.

    Jennifer Stromer-Galley October 27, 2020October 29, 2020 Website Update No Comments Read more

    Update on Illuminating 2020 Dashboard and Blog Posts

    We have discovered that the Illuminating 2020 dashboard has been underestimating the spending and impressions totals, particularly for the Biden campaign. This discrepancy is the result of our original decision to not include ads that ran without any text in

    Brian McKernan October 22, 2020October 29, 2020 Website Update No Comments Read more

    UPDATE: Technical issues have been resolved.

    We have now resolved the technical issues we were experiencing with our website. The estimates on the Illuminating 2020 dashboard are now accurate. We are currently only supporting access to data for the general election candidates from June 1 to

    Ania Korsunska September 24, 2020October 29, 2020 Website Update No Comments Read more

    Illuminating technical issues lead to temporarily inaccurate data

    Our website is currently experiencing some technical issues which are in the process of being resolved.

    Brian McKernan September 18, 2020October 29, 2020 Website Update No Comments Read more
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    This project is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, the Center for Computational and Data Sciences and the BITS Lab at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University.

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