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 with an expected flood of disinformation this...
Read More »Axios reports today (via PoliticalWire) that Trump 2020 will spend “in the high seven figures” on digital advertising this week tied to the Republican Convention. Ads will run on Facebook, Google properties and streaming services, and they follow another surge of digital advertising...
Read More »Turn on this week’s Democratic Convention and you’re going hear a lot about Joe Biden. You’ll also hear a lot about health care, the coronavirus, racial justice and guns. But behind the words and issues, I think the convention is trying to convey a silent message: competence...
Read More »This basic plan to use digital tools to help win an election comes from Chapter Six of How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections [2020 Edition]. For details on any of the campaign activities described below, check out the book! See also the Big Trends chapter, parts...
Read More »Let’s continue our examination of the Big Trends shaping the world of digital politics and advocacy with the second excerpt from Chapter Four of “How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections [2020 Edition]”. Pick up your copy right here or on Amazon (for...
Read More »Sometimes digital politics practitioners are so close to the brushstrokes that we can miss the sweep of the full painting. What are the trends shaping our field? Let’s look at four of the big ones below, with five more in the next installment. This article is an excerpt from Chapter Four of...
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