Today’s Must-Watch: Watch Jordan Peele use AI to make Barack Obama deliver a PSA about fake news
If this doesn’t scare the hell out of you about the next election season, you are not paying attention.
Category Archives: campaigns
“Trump Campaign Rebukes Indiana Candidate Signs” (Rokita)
AP:
Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has demanded that Rep. Todd Rokita take down yard signs it says give the false impression the president endorsed the Indiana Republican’s Senate bid, two people with direct knowledge of the matter told The Associated… Continue reading
“Top GOP super PAC books $48 million in ads for House races”
WaPo:
The Congressional Leadership Fund, the leading Republican super PAC focused on the House, is booking $48 million in ad reservations ahead of the November midterm elections — giving its first indications of where it intends to focus its considerable… Continue reading
“Eyeing 2020, Trump Fund-Raisers Return to Familiar Well: Small Donors”
“How Russian Facebook Ads Divided and Targeted U.S. Voters Before the 2016 Election”
Wired:
WHEN YOUNG MIE Kim began studying political ads on Facebook in August of 2016—while Hillary Clinton was still leading the polls— few people had ever heard of the Russian propaganda group, Internet Research Agency. Not even Facebook itself… Continue reading
“Billionaire vs. Billionaire: A Tug of War Between 2 Rogue Donors”
NYT:
Two rogue billionaires — one on the left, one on the right — have emerged as the biggest political spenders of the 2018 elections, defying their own parties and pouring millions of dollars into confrontational campaign tactics.
Tom Steyer,… Continue reading
“GOP Primary Challenger Invents George Soros Connection to Attack Incumbent Republican”
The Intercept:
Friends of Democracy is a Super PAC that was launched by Jonathan Soros (his father, George, has nothing to do with it). Its mission was to support members of Congress who support campaign finance reform — in other… Continue reading
“DOJ & FEC Complaints Filed Against President Trump, His Campaign & American Media Inc. for Illegal, Unreported $30K Coordinated Expenditure to Squelch Rumors of Candidate’s Illegitimate Child”
“Facebook Fallout Deals Blow to Mercers’ Political Clout”
NYT:
Last month, a friend of the wealthy conservative donor Rebekah Mercer arrived at Facebook’s Silicon Valley headquarters. His task: Find out what — if anything — could repair relations between Facebook, the world’s biggest social media company, and Cambridge… Continue reading
“Are Algorithms the New Campaign Donation?”
Jacob Metcalf for Slate.
Twitter Announces Support for Honest Ads Act—Though It Won’t Help With Much of the Problems with Twitter
Twitter is pleased to support the Honest Ads Act. Back in the fall we indicated we supported proposals to increase transparency in political ads.
— Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs) April 10, 2018
As with troubling foreign content on Facebook… Continue reading
“Facebook Launches New Initiative to Help Scholars Assess Social Media’s Impact on Elections”
Release:
Today, Facebook is announcing a new initiative to help provide independent, credible research about the role of social media in elections, as well as democracy more generally. It will be funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Democracy… Continue reading
“The Moscow Midterms: How Russia could steal our next election.”
Claire Malone for 538.
“Inside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate the NRA and Help Elect Trump”
Tom Dickinson deep dive in Rolling Stone.