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26 Apr 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
As Meta Flees Politics, Campaigns Rely on New Tricks to Reach Voters MSN – Naomi Nix, Michael Scherer, and Jeremy Merrill (Washington Post) | Published: 4/21/2024 After years of pitching its suite of social media apps as the lifeblood of campaigns, Meta is breaking up with politics. [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 5:40 am by Jon Hyman
 — via Eric Meyer's The Employer Handbook Blog Trader Joe’s Rejects the New Deal — via Jacobin Are We in the Midst of a New Labor Movement? [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Oversight Board Rebukes Meta’s Policies After Altered Biden Video Spreads MSN – Naomi Nix (Washington Post) | Published: 2/4/2024 Meta was criticized by a company-funded oversight board for its “incoherent” and “confusing” policies on manipulated media after an altered video of President Biden spread on Facebook. [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Campaign Finance New York: “Eric Adams’ Former NYPD Colleague Pleads Guilty to Orchestrating Straw Donations” by Joe Anuta (Politico) for Yahoo News Elections Wisconsin: “Wisconsin Supreme Court Grants Ballot Access to Presidential Candidate Dean Phillips” by Jessie Opoien (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) for MSN Ethics National: “The Wild Probe into Investors of DWAC, Trump Media’s Proposed Merger Ally” by Drew… [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Biden Super PAC Plans a Historic $250 Million Ad Blitz DNyuz – Reid Epstein and Shane Goldmacher (New York Times) | Published: 1/30/2024 The main Democratic super PAC supporting President Biden’s re-election bid, Future Forward, is beginning to reserve $250 million in advertising across the most important battleground states. [read post]
29 Sep 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Misinformation Research Is Buckling Under GOP Legal Attacks MSN – Naomi Nix, Cat Zakrzewski, and Joseph Menn (Washington Post) | Published: 9/23/2023 Conservative politicians are accusing academics, universities, and government agencies of colluding with technology companies to censor right-wing views. [read post]
1 Sep 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Following Elon Musk’s Lead, Big Tech Is Surrendering to Disinformation MSN – Naomi Nix and Sarah Ellison (Washington Post) | Published: 8/25/2023 Social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against political misinformation, abandoning their most aggressive efforts to police online falsehoods in a trend expected to affect the 2024 presidential election. [read post]
14 Jul 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Social Media Injunction Unravels Plans to Protect 2024 Elections Yahoo News – Cat Zakrzewski, Naomi Nix, and Joseph Menn (Washington Post) | Published: 7/8/2023 An injunction that places extraordinary limits on the government’s communications with technology companies undermines initiatives to harden social media firms against election interference, civil rights groups, academics, and tech industry insiders say. [read post]
9 Jun 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
MSN – Naomi Nix and Joseph Menn (Washington Post) | Published: 6/6/2023 House Judiciary Committee Chairperson Jim Jordan and his allies in Congress are demanding documents from and meetings with leading academics who study disinformation, increasing pressure on a group they accuse of colluding with government officials to suppress conservative speech. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 9:37 pm by Jim Sedor
Google’s Ex-CEO Eric Schmidt Tapped for Federal Biotech Commission That Allows Members to Keep Biotech Investments CNBC – Eamon Javers | Published: 1/31/2023 Leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees announced the selection of former Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt and 11 others to serve on a new commission on biotechnology. [read post]
13 May 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal A 49-Year Crusade: Inside the movement to overturn Roe v. [read post]
22 Mar 2022, 11:08 am
Eric Holcomb nixed legislation that would have blocked transgender girls from playing school sports. [read post]
28 Jan 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal As Giuliani Coordinated Plan for Trump Electoral Votes in States Biden Won, Some Electors Balked MSN – Beth Reinhard, Amy Gardner, Josh Dawsey, Emma Brown, and Rosalind Helderman (Washington Post) | Published: 1/20/2022 On December 14, 2020, the day of the electoral college vote, Republican electors convened in the capitals of five states that Joe Biden had won. [read post]
2 Jul 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal DOJ-Ordered Foreign Agent Registrations Boost China and Russia’s 2020 FARA Spending Center for Responsive Politics – Anna Massoglia and Maggie Hicks | Published: 6/24/2021 China, Qatar, and Russia dominated the top 10 ranking of countries spending the most on foreign influence, lobbying and propaganda operations targeting the U.S. in 2020, according to Foreign Agents Registration Act records. [read post]
24 Sep 2020, 5:30 am by Jordan Rothman
[NBC News] * A new trial has been ordered on a murder charge that was nixed because a lawyer did not object to an erroneous jury instruction. [read post]
29 May 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Facebook Ran Multi-Year Charm Offensive to Woo State Prosecutors Bloomberg Law – Naomi Nix | Published: 5/27/2020 Facebook went to great lengths to develop friendly relationships with powerful state prosecutors who could use their investigative and enforcement powers in ways that could harm the company’s revenue growth. [read post]
27 Mar 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The transfer signals a change of plans for Bloomberg, who is nixing an earlier idea to form his own super PAC to take on President Trump in 2020. [read post]
5 Jan 2019, 5:22 am by SHG
Under almost any other circumstance, Eric Weil would have been the Good Guy of the story. [read post]