“Biden eliminated attack ads during Trump’s hospital stay. Trump’s campaign saw no need for a softer tone.”

Jennifer Stromer-Galley, professor in the School of Information Studies, was interviewed for the CBS News story “Biden eliminated attack ads during Trump’s hospital stay. Trump’s campaign saw no need for a softer tone.” Stromer-Galley leads The Illuminating Project in the iSchool, which uses a combination of human review and machine learning to analyze 2020 election campaign ads on Facebook. Her work was referenced in the story, showing that Trump’s campaign continued to “deploying attack ads at relatively steady rates before and after the diagnosis” despite Biden suspending attack ads from his campaign.