This post might seem a little off-topic, but remember that a list is perhaps the oldest political technology (other than a club). First appeared on the VoterCircle blog. I spend almost every day working with campaigns around the country. Most...
Time to break out the nukes again! Over at Alternet, Steven Rosenfeld has been diving into the big questions around Facebook and our political process. He and I talked last week, shortly before he began his literary odyssey, and I was happy to give...
The Cambridge Analytica story is moving so fast that it can be hard to make sense of. Below is my list of essential reading, broken down by topic. As far as I can tell, here’s what we DON’T know: Did the Trump campaign even use Cambridge...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the several hundred progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their...
Facebook banned data firm Cambridge Analytica from its social network on Friday. Their crime? Failing to delete a data set gathered via a Facebook app in 2014 that they’d agreed to destroy — including information from possibly 50 million...
Ten years ago, internet politics invaded South by Southwest — and I was there to see it. I’d been going to SXSW Interactive since 2003, back when it was a tiny little thing compared with the behemoth it is today. The DC internet politics...
New contributor! Dmytrø Bilash is a long-time Epolitics.com reader based in Kyiv whom I got to meet in person on a trip to Ukraine last fall. He’s an entrepreneur focused on marketing technologies and the co-founder of Captain Growth, which...
The AP reported yesterday that the campaign of former Tennessee governor and Democrat Phil Bredesen, now running to replace Bob Corker in the Senate, may have been hit by a cyber-attack: In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, campaign lawyer...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Though I know him from his Campaigns & Elections days, Jordan Lieberman now serves as the political and public affairs lead for Audience Partners, an Altice Company. Have we reached Peak Cookie? Political...
If you’re running this year, every second is precious — and the early seconds are the most precious of all for digital organizers. Most online outreach is incremental, trench warfare rather than blitzkrieg. We recruit a few people today...