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Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases
Wired
"Other lists of American users accessible for a price across the platform raise serious national security concerns, experts say, as they reveal data brokers striving to isolate millions of mobile devices carried by government workers—from US judges and military service members to executive agency staff and employees on Capitol Hill."
Content
YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content
Variety
"In the U.S., about 31% of weekly podcast listeners choose YouTube as their preferred service, over Spotify (27%) and Apple Podcasts (15%), per Edison Podcast Metrics research released last October."
Sen. Chris Murphy's Master Class in Modern Digital Communications
EPolitics.com
"Note that these ideas are not new and novel! I was leading blogger-relations (functionally, influencer-relations) trainings almost twenty years ago, and many of us have been talking about turning a single piece of information or content into a stream of communications for years."
International
In Germany, social media algorithms are pumping out huge amounts of far-right, pro-AfD content
Nieman Lab
"Non-partisan social media users in Germany are seeing right-leaning content more than twice as much than left-leaning content in the lead up to the country’s federal elections, a new Global Witness investigation reveals."
Social Media
The Vice President Has an X Habit
Real Clear Politics
"Most politicians generally treat social media like a bulletin board in the sky. They post and then ghost. But Vance is often a reply guy."
Does TikTok Amplify Republican Content?
Doom
"The recommender system recommends less extreme content when only the algorithm is present. This suggests that the driving force here is user preferences — which are not considered in more naïve audits. Increasing the influence of the algorithm deamplifies the content that the naïve audits find to be amplified by the algorithm."
Technology
iPhone Dictation Feature Transcribes the Word ‘Racist’ as ‘Trump’
New York Times
“This smells like a serious prank,” Mr. Burkey said. “The only question is: Did someone slip this into the data or slip into the code?”
Q&A: AAPC’s Julie Sweet Weighs in on the Bills and Trends to Look for in 2025
Campaigns & Elections
"The AAPC strongly opposes the use of deceptive AI-generated content. But we have to be precise to prevent overreach that stifles legitimate campaign speech and responsible AI use. I think there is oftentimes a conflation between AI-generated content and deep fakes."
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