Now online by popular demand! Check out the slides from the digital advertising presentation Emily Gittleman and I delivered at Netroots Nation this morning. For more info, follow up with us individually — I’m on Twitter as @epolitics...
In my latest piece for Blackbaud’s npENGAGE blog (last of a series of four articles), we walk through the options around a common nonprofit communications conundrum: A question I have often heard: should nonprofits focus on email or Facebook...
Here’s a paradox for you: individual Republican candidates have struggled to raise money this year, to the point that some observers have wondered if many of them are even viable in November. Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee is...
Once again, Robert Mueller’s probe of possible Trump campaign Russia connections has ensnared one of our digital politics compatriots. Last summer’s party of interest was Trump digital director Brad Parscale; according to Reuters, this...
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...
Most of coverage of Cambridge Analytica’s work with Trump 2016 and other campaigns has focused on the potential fallout for the president and his team or for the company itself. What about the implications for 2018 political campaigns? I...
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...
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...
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...