The Midterm Monitor is a project of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Brennan Center. It’s an interactive tool that provides a snapshot of social media messages and narratives shaping the conversation around voting and election administration in the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections.
The Midterm Monitor, which is updated daily, tracks social media posts for a subset of candidates for office, news outlets, and other key messengers. Users can browse, filter, and search this pool of posts for messages on a variety of election-related topics: election security, voting by mail, vote counting, and more.
The Midterm Monitor:
- Compiles posts from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube
- Posts are updated daily
- Tracks posts from:
- Candidates for U.S. House and Senate
- Candidates for governor and secretary of state
- The most influential national news outlets in English and Spanish
- The most influential national media personalities
- The most followed local or state news outlets in 10 battleground states: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin
- State media and diplomats associated with the governments of China, Iran, and Russia
- Allows users to filter posts from those accounts by:
- Voting- and election-related topic
- Social media platform
- Engagement, such as number of likes or other metrics depending on platform
- Type of account, such as news outlets or candidates
- Date
- Candidate’s political party
- English- and Spanish-language content
- More
