New Epolitics.com contributor! Chuck Westover is the founder of Next Level Digital, where he continues more than two decades of fighting for progressive policy solutions and electing Democrats at the local, state, and federal level. He joins us...
If you heard a distant roaring sound on Wednesday, it was probably the collective sigh of relief from every digital political consultant in the United States. Around mid-day, Facebook sent an email to political ad agencies announcing that it was...
Political advertisers will soon roam Google’s pastures once more! Starting Wednesday, political campaigns and political nonprofits can buy ads on Google search, YouTube and the company’s other platforms again. Will Facebook follow suit...
Photo: online, disinformation spreads like…. Continuing today’s disinformation theme (readers-via-email, be sure to check out Deepak Puri’s piece below), let’s talk about neo-nazis on social media: Over the years, these...
Nobody on the political left wants to share stories from Fox…but we should. The idea naturally rankles. Why should we boost a news outlet that consistently distorts our views and actively turns people against us? For one reason: sharing Fox...
So now we know what it takes for Facebook and Twitter to cut off Trump: an angry mob storming the United States Capitol. Before today, these companies had overlooked a lot. Consistent racism? Sad, but he’s a public figure. Lies and...
Yesterday I suggested that the Georgia senate runoff races have likely siphoned away donations that otherwise might have landed in nonprofit coffers in the last weeks of 2020. But while Ossoff and Warnock may compete with nonprofits for...
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...
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...
Axios reports today Google will finally lift its post-election U.S. political ad ban starting tomorrow, December 10th. Political organizers working on January’s Georgia Senate special will now be able to run ads on Google search, YouTube...