Home > 1.3.1.1.1 Coverage of the election campaign > Joint Report of the Venice Commission and of the Directorate of Information Society and Action Against Crime of the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law - On Digital Technologies and Elections
 
 
 
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Today approximately two billion internet users are using social networks on a daily basis, and social media have become an indispensable part of modern political campaigning, their effects on the public being dependent on multiple factors such as channel-variables (e.g. Twitter vs. Instagram), specific audience characteristics and predispositions, user motivations and the political campaign context overall.