Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 U.S. election cycle
This is a preliminary release of the code and data associated with the research paper "Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 U.S. election cycle".
Authors: Arunesh Mathur, Angelina Wang, Carsten Schwemmer, Maia Hamin, Brandon Stewart, and Arvind Narayanan.
Website: https://electionemails2020.org
The repository has three primary components:
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analysis/
: contains code for our analysis of the manipulative tactics in the from fields and subject lines of the emails. -
email-server/
: contains the necessary procedures and code to set up a server and archive incoming emails. -
email-signup/
: contains the code of our automated email signup bot that is built upon OpenWPM.
The entire dataset of 317,366 emails can be requested here.