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Exhibit 737

Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle

Exhibit 737 · Peer-reviewed study

Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle

manipulative tactics—techniques using some level of deception or clickbait—are the norm, not the exception.

Corpus of more than 300,000 emails from over 3,000 senders including federal and state candidates and PACs across parties.

Source
Mathur, Wang, Schwemmer, Hamin, Stewart, Narayanan (Big Data & Society)
Date
January 2023
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Abstract
Grade
Peer-reviewed
Document
https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517221145371
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Finding POL-3.15
Peer-reviewed An analysis of more than 300,000 emails from over 3,000 senders in the 2020 cycle, including federal and state candidates and political committees across parties, found that manipulative tactics, meaning techniques that use some level of deception or clickbait, are the norm in political emails.