Political Social Grab Bag - February 2024 - Becker Digital Strategies

Political Social Grab Bag

Trainings & Webinar Alerts

Using Data to Win: Digital Analytics Training– Feb 26 & 27 in person, Washington DC (co facilitated with Emily Patterson of Bee Measure)

Social Media Deep Dive- April 8-11 via Zoom

What am I reading?

The big idea: should we keep politics out of social media.– Key sentence: people are becoming “what I describe as ‘listeners’, who use social media to consume political information but avoid forms of public political expression”.- think about what that means for active vs passive engagement

Bluesky CEO confronts content moderation in the fediverse– I often get asked about why the fediverse is such an exciting frontier in social media- while this article focuses on content moderation a lot of what is discussed is also why the fediverse is so exciting

2023 in social media: the case for the fediverse- Just read this one

Democrats built an influencer economy. Can it save Joe Biden?– Good look at how the presidential campaign is thinking about it’s use of microinfluencers

Bonus read for those in Europe or who do work in Europe: The EU Parliament has released a draft of their proposed regulations for political advertising….worth a read

Platform Updates

Meta Platforms (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp/Messenger, Threads)

New on Instagram: Polls

Meta has released it’s text to image tool Imagine

ICYMI Threads has rolled out topic tags aka hashtags but without the #…but if you really want to use the # you can

Threads changed it’s link referrer to specify Threads instead of Instagram for link attribution purposes

Instagram now let’s you create your own sticker from feed post images

Fediverse (Mastodon, Bluesky and more)

Flipboard is implementing ActivityPub (the same protocol as Mastodon)

Threads has started to test it’s fediverse implementation and share it’s plans for full integration over the course of the next year

Other Platforms