Data · topic · Zambia 2026
Corruption & governance
14of the analyzable domestic political ads in the run-up to Zambia's 2026 election touch on corruption & governance — 4 promotional, 9 attack. This is one of the few topics where attacks outnumber promotion.
Who runs these ads
- Hakainde Hichilema — 7 ads
- The Zed Politics — 2 ads
- Choolwe Chibomba (commentator) — 2 ads
- Patrick Chikwanda (Makeni) — 1 ads
Sample ad text
Remember the cadres at the markets and bus stops. The debt they defaulted on. The kwacha they crashed. The K1.5 billion in road deals nobody can explain. Now the same PF is back, with a new name. Why trust them again? Zambia cannot afford t…
Remember the cadres at the markets and bus stops. The debt they defaulted on. The kwacha they crashed. The K1.5 billion in road deals nobody can explain. Now the same PF is back, with a new name. Why trust them again? Zambia cannot afford t…
Road contracts for Mr Mundubile or more CDF for your constituency? We think public money should be spent on your priorities, not his. Don't let them take us back.…
Topic classification is model-assisted (measured 86% accuracy on our evaluation set) and covers only ads whose text Meta did not withhold; see methodology.