The latest digital politics news and perspective, including a few highlights from late 2017. Send in good stories as you see them! Just email me or send a tweet. Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share. C.f. Facebook...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the several hundred progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their...
Facebook’s algorithm is changing again! Publishers are freaking out at the thought of losing news feed access, but Beth Becker has good advice for organizations and campaigns that still want to give their content the best chance of reaching...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the several hundred progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their...
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...
Relaunch! I used to post these lists weekly, but the pool ended up being dominated by a handful of spammy Facebook pages that weren’t associated with any campaign or group. Most of those should now be banished, and I’ve added a bunch of...
Tom Steyer likes me. He really does! He likes me so much that he emailed me out of the blue late yesterday afternoon: Subject: Live from Times Square: IMPEACH DONALD TRUMP If you happened to be walking around Times Square today, like countless...
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...
Update: a couple of astute readers have noted that Clinton team may have turned down embeds because they already had former Facebook employees on staff, and that they would have worked closely with Facebook’s technical team. An excellent...