Photo: online, disinformation spreads like…. Continuing today’s disinformation theme (readers-via-email, be sure to check out Deepak Puri’s piece below), let’s talk about neo-nazis on social media: Over the years, these...
Most of you will have read by now that former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale (the first digital director to run a major presidential campaign) was tackled by police and forcibly committed over the weekend after he threatened to kill himself...
On June 27th, President Donald Trump tweeted out a video: pic.twitter.com/nwAbhemhZf — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2020 Whew, the soundtrack alone raised my blood pressure. Plus, I didn’t realize that so many Democratic...
Some Friday fun for you: a few days ago, a McAfee security scan app flagged a link I’d recently clicked. Who owned the site that posed a danger? Newt Gingrich: I’ve been on Newt’s list since he ran for President in 2012, and...
News came late last week that Joe Biden would in fact rely on an in-house digital team rather than outsourcing his online outreach to Mike Bloomberg’s Hawkfish campaign startup. Many in the field thought that hiring a firm with little...
The official White House twitter account has already posted a campaign-style video of Donald Trump’s Bible-toting photo opportunity last night: pic.twitter.com/bKvTrqHomS — The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 2, 2020 To create this...
Trump and the Republican party have used the impeachment process as a fundraising hook since Nancy Pelosi launched the inquiry back in September, but they’re not the only ones profiting from his supporters in this political moment. Maggie...
Following Twitter’s recent political ad cop-out, last week Google announced new restrictions on political advertising on its digital platforms, including YouTube. Unlike Trump’s favorite microblogging platform, Google will still allow...
Theresa Greenfield is running for Congress from Iowa. I know this because I get a daily report from my email spam filter and I’ve learned to check it. Greenfield’s campaign has sent me six messages over the past week, and not one of them...
This time they came for Pelosi, and they came looking like amateurs. Like it mattered: the crudely edited video of the House Speaker altered to slur her speech has already reached millions of American voters. Wait until the REAL deepfakes come along...