Team

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Arunesh Mathur

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Angelina Wang

Graduate Student

Carsten Schewemmer

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Maia Hamin

Undergraduate Student

Brandon Stewart

Assistant Professor

Arvind Narayanan

Assistant Professor

We are researchers affiliated with Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP).

We are grateful to Mihir Kshirsagar, Matthew Salganik, Andy Guess and Orestis Papakyriakopoulos for feedback on our paper. We also thank Justin Grimmer and Jonathan Mayer for advice at earlier stages of the project. We are also grateful to Ballotpedia and OpenSecrets for providing and making their data available to us. This project was funded in part by generous support from the Data Driven Social Science Initiative at Princeton University.

Frequently Asked Questions

Press

Oct 21, 2020

All the President’s spam

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Oct 17, 2020

Political campaign emails contain dark patterns to manipulate donors, voters

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Oct 9, 2020

Trump's Campaign Lures Donors With Absurd Financial Promises — and Insults

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Oct 9, 2020

How campaigns use manipulative tricks to convince you to open their emails

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Oct 6, 2020

Help, My Candidate Is Dying: Most Campaign Emails Are Manipulative, Study Findss

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Princeton University
Data Driven Initiative

This project is led by researchers at Princeton University, affiliated with its Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP).