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Nobody on the political left wants to share stories from Fox…but we should. The idea naturally rankles. Why should we boost a news outlet that consistently distorts our views and actively turns people against us? For one reason: sharing Fox...
After Joe Biden nailed down the Democratic presidential nomination almost a year ago, many worried that Donald Trump’s online disinformation machine would make short work of him. As the election season built toward the fall and Trump’s...
If it’s midnight in Moscow, what time is it in Kentucky? Via PoliticalWire, the Democratic PAC American Bridge has launched an extension for the Chrome web browser that will automatically replace the words “Mitch McConnell” in any...
Top Photo: This time, precise targeting was just a test. Regular readers know that I’ve been advocating for Democrats to launch long-term persuasion campaigns to reach people inside the Fox/Limbaugh/Breitbart bubble. Absent field outreach...
Donald Trump’s first State of the Union Address takes place tomorrow, and with it comes a yearly tradition in the political advocacy world: SOTU rapid response. As I wrote a couple of years ago, For political communicators, this is a special...
Of course it’s a trick question, since the answer is always going to be, “it depends”. Your circumstances influence the balance point between data and content, but one is rarely as useful as it could be without the other. All the...
Updated below. Unless you’ve turned off website notifications, here’s what you’ll see, in my case in the upper left corner: A website notification box, oh my. You can actually see it in Firefox as well as in Chrome now, assuming...
Regular contributor Laura Packard spotted something noteworthy at the last Republican undercard debate: Rick Santorum invited viewers to Google his name. What? His Permanent Record had been permanently tagged years ago by a well orchestrated...
Beth mentioned this story in last week’s social media roundup, but it got overshadowed by the free Facebook Ads. A separate post was in order! I missed the significance of this at the time (as a long-time Photoshop user, I haven’t needed...