‘Brand safety’ AI is the snake oil advertisers rub on their adtech snake oil for imaginary ailments but it’s the news business that is swindled out of billions in revenue in the moment we need it the most. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-news-advertising-idUSKBN27C1BE
Remorseless Raniere potentially facing a life sentence today for Nxivm convictions. #TheVowHBO https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/nyregion/keith-raniere-nxivm.html
FWIW Cambridge Analytica identified and classified these voters into the Trump campaign’s segmentation audience they called DEADBEATS so no money would be wasted on them. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/us/election-nonvoters.html
Join us: So many Qs to ask? What’s the deal with that ICO letter? And that Channel4News collaboration with Miami Herald exposing massive deterrence campaign in ‘16? Will the same data persuade the evangelical vote to turn out in droves in ‘20? How would we even know? #DataRights
📣📣📣 Later this week, our COO @GhaffAl will be chairing a panel of #digitalrights giants consisting of @profcarroll @RaviNa1k and @digitalsista to discuss #data, #democracy & the integrity of our #elections. You can submit questions for the panel now.
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/data-democracy-and-integrity-our-elections
Trump is not only a colossal asshole, he’s also a cowardly wimp.
This was Trump's epic meltdown on 60 Minutes and it was even worse than reported. Trump literally ran away because he didn't like the questions.
When you step out of the FoxNews cocoon and deal with actual facts, questions seem a lot tougher than they are, don’t they @realDonaldTrump? https://twitter.com/PoliticusSarah/status/1320519094295240712
This was Trump's epic meltdown on 60 Minutes and it was even worse than reported. Trump literally ran away because he didn't like the questions.
My column this week is in response to the question I get most from friends and readers right now: What should I do if I notice a loved one or friend starts sharing conspiratorial garbage online? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/opinion/qanon-conspiracy-theories-family.html
More than 70.4 million Americans have already voted, according to data compiled by the U.S. Elections Project.
Pelosi: "My experience with the president is that he has, really, almost a historic lack of knowledge about the issues and the legislative process. He has no relationship ... with fact, data, truth or evidence. And he has a very small view of the future." https://politi.co/3kwhpP5
In the Mississippi Senate race, Democrat Mike Espy raised more than $3.9 million in the final financial filing released before the election. Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith raised just $85,000 over the same period. https://nbcnews.to/2TwcAJu
Nationally, voters have already cast about 49% of the total vote counted in 2016. https://wapo.st/3kfaRUQ
Of the 29 states that require mail-in ballots to arrive on or before Election Day, 28 have since late July seen periods of average USPS delivery times exceeding six days.
Among them are battleground states like Florida, Arizona, Wisconsin and Georgia. https://on.wsj.com/37HCMct
USPS leadership have received a sweeping set of orders from a federal judge, laying out ways the Postal Service must make sure ballots are delivered quickly because of the ongoing election and absentee voting deadlines.
https://cnn.it/3orN1aK
For now, the early voting numbers overwhelmingly favor Democrats in 16 of 19 states that provide such data.
https://wapo.st/3kyRnuz
One week from Election Day, here's what we know about who's voted so far in key states https://cnn.it/2Hy3iKV
45 states and the District of Columbia allow you to track your ballot just like an Amazon package or food delivery. Here's how https://cnn.it/31Q1u6D
The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip, one week from Election Day https://cnn.it/37JxCNb
Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in and greeted with a request to recuse herself in an election case https://cnn.it/35BaAFw
First lady Melania Trump focuses on Covid-19 and slams Democrats for politicizing pandemic in her first solo campaign event of 2020 https://cnn.it/34AWsgd
Michigan judge strikes down ban on open carry of guns at polling places on Election Day https://cnn.it/2TvR6wq
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch rejects Minnesota Republican congressional candidate's appeal to delay that election https://cnn.it/2HJCRlf
