Content
Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results
Pew Research
"Google users are more likely to end their browsing session entirely after visiting a search page with an AI summary than on pages without a summary. This happened on 26% of pages with an AI summary, compared with 16% of pages with only traditional search results."
How to Future-Proof Your Website with AI Search Optimization
Push Digital Group
"You’re no longer just optimizing for people to click through. You’re optimizing to be the source that AI trusts. That means doubling down on credibility, clarity, and factual, well-structured content. This is where EEAT comes in."
Data
The recent rash of DOJ voter file “requests”
Election Law Blog
"But I don’t think anyone would look at that notice and expect that DOJ plans to collect and keep a bunch of voter files, with identifiable information about individuals’ registration and/or voting history who aren’t themselves plausibly part of any investigation into state practices."
Fundraising
AOC, Mamdani and Progressives Rake In Cash as Democrats Remain Divided
Wall Street Journal
"The contrast between the two women highlights how Democratic small-dollar donors, an increasingly important group as more fundraising moves online, often are biased in their support of ideological favorites rather than focusing on just those in competitive races."
Technology
The campaign to make it illegal for ChatGPT to criticize Trump
Platformer
"The First Amendment was designed to protect almost all forms of speech, but most especially political speech, which the founders understood would be extremely inconvenient and annoying to the politicians who would inevitably attempt to get rid of it."
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