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How the Nigerian and Kenyan media handled Cambridge Analytica

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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
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34 X users
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2 Facebook pages
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Article details
Title
How the Nigerian and Kenyan media handled Cambridge Analytica
Published by
The Conversation, January 2020
DOI 10.64628/aaj.evkdswf66
Authors

Brian Ekdale, Melissa Tully

Abstract

What role do foreign actors play in African elections? Cambridge Analytica's case sheds some light.

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 69. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 April 2025.
All research outputs
#757,074
of 32,967,084 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#88,895
of 206,904 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,062
of 513,399 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#1,173
of 1,932 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,967,084 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 206,904 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 99.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 57% of its peers.
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