Data
For sale: Data on voters who are likely to support political violence
Politico
"The dataset was provided to POLITICO by Thorin Klosowski, a security and privacy activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who used California’s data privacy law to request his voter file from L2 Data. Data privacy laws that went into effect in eight states have made it newly possible for consumers to obtain the information companies collect on them."
Content
YouTube Says It Has Fixed Search Results for Joe Rogan’s Donald Trump Interview to Show Full Episode
Variety
"Since it was uploaded Friday, the Trump interview on 'The Joe Rogan Experience' has generated more 35 million views on YouTube. That makes it Rogan’s most-viewed episode of the year to date, according to YouTube."
Fundraising
Why Are Annoying Political Texts Out of Control?
Washingtonian
"Alex Quilici, CEO of the spam-blocking company YouMail, says there were already more political texts by July of this year—well before the heart of election season—than in all of 2023, and that by early October as much as half of all automated texts being sent were political."
International
Dozens of police influencers are running for office in Brazil
Rest Of World
"There are more than 6,000 law enforcement officials on the ballots, and at least 45 of them have upwards of 10,000 followers on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram."
Security
Chinese Hackers Are Said to Have Targeted Phones Used by Trump and Vance
New York Times
"It was unclear whether the hackers could have gained access to text messages, especially those sent through unencrypted channels."
Social Media
How social media video clippers have become some of the most powerful outlets of the 2024 campaign
CNN
"Video-clippers drive news coverage because the moments they post get circulated among reporters, producers and assignment editors. The clips also get reposted across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and other platforms. In effect, the clippers function as an early warning system for newsrooms, surfacing remarks, noise or nonsense that’s about to get a whole lot of attention."
On Elon Musk’s X, Republicans go viral as Democrats disappear
Washington Post
"Nearly all of the 33 tweets with more than 20 million views since last summer came from Republicans, the analysis shows."
Technology
AI's Underwhelming Impact On the 2024 Elections
TIME
"Tech insiders acknowledge 2024 was not a breakthrough year for generative AI in politics. 'There are a lot of campaigns and organizations using AI in some way or another. But in my view, it did not reach the level of impact that people anticipated or feared,' says Betsy Hoover, the founder of Higher Ground Labs, a venture fund that invests in political technology."
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