ISFED conducts 1st social media monitoring study for elections: dubious Facebook accounts, pages tripled ahead of presidential runoff

ISFED started social media monitoring at the end of August 2018, with the help of the Embassy of Netherlands in Georgia.Photo: ISFED.

Agenda.ge, 17 Jan 2019 - 12:39, Tbilisi,Georgia

The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) for the first time carried out social media monitoring during the 2018 presidential elections, which revealed that the number of dubious Facebook pages tripled ahead of the presidential election runoff in November.

The increased role and potency of social media and its impact on the elections were the reasons why the ISFED monitored social media in the country.

The project was carried out with the financial support of Embassy of Netherlands in Georgia.