Top photo: George Floyd memorial in Minneapolis. By via Wikipedia. Despite a pandemic, Americans gathered in vast numbers over the past few weeks to protest the deaths of George Floyd and other people of color at the hands of police. Without social...
Facebook just announced that it will start allowing users to opt out of political advertising, though it hasn’t yet said when or how. Will this decision cripple digital campaigning in a presidential election year? First question: how many...
As Americans struggle with a pandemic that’s put millions out of work and killed more than 100,000 of us so far, President Donald Trump has chosen to launch a war against a social-media company. Of course, we already know who’ll lose...
Top photo: a good mask will scare the coronavirus away, or so I hear As America shuts down public events, limits handshakes and learns to practice “social distancing”, how can political campaigns and advocacy organizations adapt to the...
Over the weekend, Politico’s David Siders examined the coronavirus as a wild card for political campaigns. Let’s focus on one possible effect: will the virus drive candidates out of the real world and onto the internet? Most political...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications, LLC. Check out his recommendations for list-building via digital ads below, and when you’re done, be sure to browse past Epolitics.com...
When Twitter announced that it would ban all political ads (including the issue-focused variety), I wasn’t shy about what I thought: I called it a cop-out. Why? Twitter wants the best of all possible worlds — for itself. It’s...
Are we on the verge of the worst online political fight in the history of the medium? Certainly the nastiest one that has real consequences: in this case, the leadership of the most powerful country in the world. Donald Trump has already escalated...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Myles Bugbee is a digital strategist who has consulted from city council to congressional to presidential campaigns. During the 2018 cycle, he directed Sen. Jon Tester’s digital program and was dubbed “Mr...
Axios has reported that “President Trump’s campaign and key allies plan to make allegations of bias by social media platforms a core part of their 2020 strategy”. The supposed goal? To tarnish social media the same way the Right...