Last week, we covered the GoFundMe account set up to help Christine Blasey Ford pay for security and other costs related to her telling her sexual assault story about Brett Kavanaugh. This week, we learn that grassroots donations to both parties...
Late in Christine Blasey Ford’s Senate testimony today, the Republican surrogate questioner asked questions getting at whether anyone was funding her effort to tell her story about Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assault, particularly if...
Beth Becker’s latest “Political Social Grab Bag” e-newsletter came out a few days ago and we have it here for your enjoyment. An Epolitics.com online exclusive! Sign up now to get the next Political Social Grab Bag delivered...
In the last six weeks, it seems like not a day goes by that we don’t see a big change announced by Facebook or Twitter. It’s a lot to keep track of, so we’ve decided to start doing Platform Update Notes on Fridays starting today...
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...
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...
Last week, Donald Trump announced that Brad Parscale, his 2016 digital director, would serve as manager for the President’s 2020 reelection campaign. It’s a milestone of sorts: the first time that a digital strategist has been named...
Beth Becker’s latest “Political Social Grab Bag” e-newsletter came out a few days ago and we have it here for your enjoyment. An Epolitics.com online exclusive! Sign up now to get the next Political Social Grab Bag delivered...
So much news about Trump, Russia and the social media world, so little time to keep track. To help, I’ve created an reading list catch you up fast, which I’ll be updating as new stories break [Note: Updated 11/9/2017 w/articles marked as...
Brad Parscale was the first pure-digital consultant to run a major presidential campaign. The result? A campaign that prioritized online outreach over television ads. As he put it in his recent 60 Minutes interview, “Twitter was how he talked...