We’ve been able to see just a handful of the ads that were blanketed across social media during and after the referendum campaign. Vote Leave had found their niche and they were hitting voters hard with the same lines over and over, digitally and on TV and radio. Cummings had realized there was…
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Brexit: The Establishment Civil War – Chapter 1 Preview
Data, Data Everywhere With big data comes big responsibilities. – Kate Crawford 27 January 2015, Twitter HQ: Twitter executives are preparing to unveil a set of tools for advertisers. This array of new tools will allow users to be targeted based on specific criteria, such as their postcode or geographical location. The new…
Chatter #115 – Oli Dugmore on Memes, Journalism, and the Influence of Social Media on Politics
Oli Dugmore, head of News and Politics at Joe Politics, was my guest on today’s show. In this conversation we went deep on the power of the meme, the GameStop saga, and the power of social media to influence politics. We also covered a number of issues that I cover in my book,…
Chatter #78 – Hezues R on Mental Health, Suicide, and Choosing Art Over Algorithms
Hezues R, the creative and film-maker was my guest on today’s show. Amongst other things Hezues created the official fragrance for the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton and ran a handful of advertising campaigns for Sean P. Diddy Combs’. In this conversation we explored some of the ideas that he…
Chatter #71 – Peter Geoghegan on Dark Money and the Corruption of British Politics
Peter Geoghegan, author of Democracy For Sale and writer at openDemocracy, was our guest on today’s show. I’ve been trying to get to sit down with Peter and have a chat about dark money in politics for quite a while, so after a short delay in the release of his book due to…
Chatter #68 – Ryan Hartwig and Zach McElroy on Project Veritas and Censorship at Facebook
Ryan Hartwig and Zach McIlroy were my guests on today’s show. Both are former Facebook insiders who became whistleblowers for Project Veritas, a larger project aimed at uncovering censorship on social media platforms and fighting for freedom of speech. We had a very intriguing conversation on the practices inside Facebook, selective censorship, the…
