Advertising
Conservatives make the case for right-wing ads at Cannes Lions
Semafor
“We’ve fought really hard for fair treatment from the advertising industry. We have a responsibility to show up and try to engage with it.”
Campaigns
We pointed a webcam at a wall — and activated more than 100,000 people
FWIW
“More than 100,000 people tuned in at some point, Hands off the Arts’ email list grew by 40% overnight, and its social channels also saw real growth.”
Design
Zohran Mamdani has a new font as New York mayor
Yello
“But it’s rare to see a campaigning politician with good type take that same intentionality with them into office.”
Fundraising
Supreme Court strikes down party spending limits
Axios
“Freed from the caps, party committees can now spend without limit alongside their candidates — making them a far more powerful magnet for the big-dollar money that’s flooded into super PACs over the past 15 years.”
What SCOTUS’s Campaign Finance Ruling Means for Parties
Campaigns & Elections
“By contrast, party committees are permanent institutions with direct accountability to donors, voters, candidates and party leadership.”
“When You Change the Rules, You Change the Game”
Will Robinson
“The danger for Democrats isn’t simply that Republicans will raise more money. It’s that Democrats will be forced to spend even more of their limited resources on paid media while starving the long-term investments that actually build political power.”
Social Media
Full Fact is battling AI-generated elections content with AI tools of its own
Nieman Lab
“Over the course of the May elections we scanned 16,514 images or videos attached to candidates’ social media posts, and identified 136 that appeared to have watermarks.”
Technology
Scientists Asked AI to Impersonate 112 Public Figures
404 Media
“The clear majority of participants favored the AI impersonators for coherence and relevance, and more than half rated the chatbot as more authentic than the person.”
Can ChatGPT Code Your Open-Ends? (And Which Ones?)
Survey 160
“First, do not treat LLM coding of open-ends as comprehension; treat it as a keyword search, and expect it to do well on proper-noun categories and poorly on conceptual ones.”
Voters Think A.I. Is Terrible. In Campaigns, It’s Everywhere.
New York Times
“Behind the scenes, though, campaign managers and consultants have rapidly embedded A.I. into nearly every tool to analyze voter data, craft campaign materials and write custom messages to micro-segments of the electorate.”