“The Heiress Quietly Shaping Trump’s Operation”
Vogel on Mercer.
Category Archives: campaigns
“Automated Pro-Trump Bots Overwhelmed Pro-Clinton Messages, Researchers Say”
NYT:
An automated army of pro-Donald J. Trump chatbots overwhelmed similar programs supporting Hillary Clinton five to one in the days leading up to the presidential election, according to a report published Thursday by researchers at Oxford University.
The… Continue reading
“White House Confirms Pre-Election Warning to Russia Over Hacking”
NYT:
Over the past month, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has received two starkly different messages about hacking into American computer networks from the current and future presidents of the United States: Don’t you dare, and don’t worry, we’re… Continue reading
“Viral Fake Election News Outperformed Real News On Facebook In Final Months Of The US Election”
BuzzFeed:
In the final three months of the US presidential campaign, the top-performing fake election news stories on Facebook generated more engagement than the top stories from major news outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post,… Continue reading
“Rethinking Presidential Eligibility”
Gene Mazo has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Fordham Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Throughout American history, several aspiring presidents have had their candidacies challenged for failing to meet the Constitution’s eligibility requirements. These challenges began in the… Continue reading
“Social Media’s Globe-Shaking Power”
Must-read Farhad Manjoo NYT:
On Monday, both Google and Facebook altered their advertising policies to explicitly prohibit sites that traffic in fake news from making money off lies. That’s very likely a worthwhile fix, even if it comes too late.… Continue reading
“Trump team talks of setting up political arm”
“Soros bands with donors to resist Trump, ‘take back power'”
“Court challenges likely for photo ID, campaign contribution amendments approved by Missouri voters”
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Super PAC Donor Literally Given a Seat at the Table for Trump’s Transition
Announcement from transition team that Rebekah Mercer is joining.
Now’s the time to go back and study Matea Gold’s must-read profile of Mercer.
“White Won. We are still the country that produced George Wallace. We are still the country that killed Emmett Till.”
Jamelle Bouie:
Americans are stubbornly, congenitally optimistic. And the millions who backed Trump see something in his visage. Something that gives them hope. Here’s what I see. I see a man who empowered white nationalists and won. I see a… Continue reading
“The Democratic Party Establishment Is Finished”
Jim Newell:
The midterm losses? That was just a bad cycle, structurally speaking; presidential demographics would make up for it. The party establishment made a grievous mistake rallying around Hillary Clinton. It wasn’t just a lack of recent political seasoning.… Continue reading
“How the stampede for big money enabled Donald Trump’s rise”
This Matea Gold piece is spot-on and what I’ve been saying. The money story is the most underappreciated one of 2016.