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‘Streeting, Akehurst, who next? How campaigns can fight deepfake attacks’
Nefarious audio and video content made to trick voters present a clear and present danger to free and fair elections. Deepfake technology has advanced at a rapid speed as computer processing technology has become faster and cheaper and audio and video editing software has become universally available. Read More Here |
How Digital Changed the Political Landscape — Scott Goodstein
It was an honor to write on the evolution of digital technology for modern political campaigns for the academic series, Campaigns & Elections American Style 6th Edition. Read More Here |
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Digital Politics with Karen Jagoda: Political Text Spam With Scott Goodstein Of Catalyst Campaigns
Scott Goodstein is the CEO and Founder of Catalyst Campaigns and is active in the war against spam. He sets the stage with a description of the early days of mass text messaging by the Obama campaign in 2008. Read More Here Campaigns may have lost their most effective — and annoying — outreach tool
Text messaging — with their markedly high “open rates” — is an especially potent form of political outreach: Since 2016, texting has become one of the most appealing ways for campaigns to engage voters or supporters, especially as so many have ditched their landlines. Read More Here Company wants exemption from FEC on disclaimers on political ads on smartphones
A D.C.-based media firm is petitioning the Federal Election Commission to exempt political advertisements on mobile and smartphones from standard ad sponsor disclaimers as campaign messaging adapts to ever-changing technologies. Read More Here Democrats must evolve their voter communication strategies
“I got a call from Bill Clinton!” my grandmother informed me one day many years ago, thrilled that the president of the United States had taken time out of his busy schedule to call her. But he hadn’t. Instead, it was her first encounter with an exciting new technology – robocalls – which were used to remind voters to get out and cast a ballot. Wow, did she kvell about this experience and tell all her friends to go vote for her friend Bill. Read More Here Trump and Harris Duke It Out on Social Media
Donald Trump had lots of momentum on social media a month ago. Now, he is facing a candidate who is drumming up momentum of her own. Read more here Punk at Scale: Amplifying Authenticity
The tension between growth & authenticity, unexpectedness & accessibility, profits & social impact are central themes in today’s success stories. While it involves hard work and constant dialogue, it’s key to staying alive. For Meow Wolf, it’s especially important since the “product” is art & experience. Read more here Former Obama Tech Expert: Democrats Need a Competitive Primary
For much of our nation’s history, there have been insiders who aimed to quash competition within political parties. Even today, far too many party elites seem to think uncontested primaries are better. Read more here |
Disinformation via text message is a problem with few answers
The biggest election disinformation event of the 2022 midterm primaries was not an elaborate Russian troll scheme that played out on Twitter or Facebook. It was some text messages. Read More Here Punk Politico: Revolution Messaging’s Scott Goodstein
On a Sunday in early April, Scott Goodstein set off on a motorcycle tour of Maryland horse country with his cousin and a friend from political circles. They hadn’t gone far when, at 7:30 in the morning, a GMC Yukon pickup truck coming in the other direction caught the front tire of Goodstein’s Yamaha. Read More Here How the Sanders Campaign Got a Punk Sensibility
Last Thursday, a few hours before the end of the Democratic National Convention, two consultants to the Bernie Sanders campaign, Scott Goodstein and Arun Chaudhary, sat in the lobby of their Philadelphia hotel and considered what had become of the grassroots support for the candidate. Read More Here Former Obama Tech Expert: Democrats Need a Competitive Primary For much of our nation’s history, there have been insiders who aimed to quash competition within political parties. Even today, far too many party elites seem to think uncontested primaries are better. Read More Here Pop stars, massive crowds and history: How the Obama and Harris campaigns compare
Casting himself as “a skinny kid with a funny name” instantly made a barely 40-something Barack Obama a star. Read more here Donald Trump Trolled Us All. We Should Learn From It.
For more than a year, Americans were glued to their smartphones as Donald J. Trump tweeted and retweeted misogynistic, racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic speech. Read more here ‘Five challenges all Labour election candidates must be prepared for’With the PM seemingly having committed to the general election taking place in the second half of 2024, candidates need to make the most of the limited time available to prepare themselves.
Read More Here Scott Goodstein Feature In Principal Post’s Cues & Views
Scott Goodstein was recently featured in Cues & Views, as featured in Principal Post. Read More Here |
