Update: The Daily 202 has details on ad volume and placement. Interesting tidbit via today’s Politico’s Playbook PM: Press secretary Jen Psaki said at the briefing today that the Biden administration’s efforts to discourage migration...
Brad Caldana and long-time friend-of-Epolitics Beth Becker are hosting what promises to be a great online training starting in March. The topic? Building a social-media ambassador program. The idea? With organic Facebook reach a fading memory for...
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...
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...
No internet, no Capitol riot: It’s that simple. Mainstream American political organizations assemble crowds, but rarely mobs. Advocacy groups don’t generally turn people against the institutions of government physically, and events like...
Now that Twitter has banned its loudest voice, has the platform lost its status as a political tool? Not really, at least in the short run, I argue in my latest column for Campaigns & Elections. For one thing, DJT wasn’t the only one...
The White House changed hands on January 20th, and so did all of social-media properties associated with it. As Laurence Dobbs covered in the UK’s Daily Telegraph around the time of the inauguration, this process was unusually fraught when one...
So now we know what it takes for Facebook and Twitter to cut off Trump: an angry mob storming the United States Capitol. Before today, these companies had overlooked a lot. Consistent racism? Sad, but he’s a public figure. Lies and...
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...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dropped a bomb on U.S. political advertisers today: no new ads related to candidates or issues will run on Facebook or Instagram in the week before Election Day this year. The decision comes as the company tries to deal...