The past two years have taught political professionals some serious lessons. What happens when campaigns raise more money than they know what to do with? Unfortunately for Democrats, not always win. Also: the big gap between social media and the real world, featuring another harsh dose of...
Read More »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 social-media numbers consistently blew...
Read More »This year I got to do serious political campaign work for the first time. Yes, I’ve been deep in the world of digital political advocacy for more than two decades, and I’ve helped out on small campaigns in the past, but this election cycle immersed me in the mechanics of working to...
Read More »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...
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