Political Social Grab Bag – July 2026

Political Social Grab Bag

What am I reading?

Repeat partnerships are the most effective creator campaigns, and YouTube leads the way: The TLDR: Long term partnerships with creators have significantly better ROI than one off sponsored content

Voters are using AI to fact-check. The tools are wrong 90% of the time.: If you’re not seriously thinking about AEO for your website and content, it’s time to do so. (disclosure note: The author is my concert BFF Katie, but she didn’t know I was putting this in my newsletter until she reads the newsletter)

Social media’s next evolution: user-controlled algorithms– Your must read of the month

New Tools of Interest

Forum– new app from Meta specifically for FB Groups (I’ve been using it for a few weeks…much better experience than the Groups Feed in main FB App imho so far)

This is a great article listing 5 of the up and comes in the new social network world

Platform Updates

Meta Platforms

Meta has now added event creation to the things you can do in Business Suite

Meta: In addition to the Verified Paid Program, Meta is now rolling out Plus programs for each app…some features seem worth it, some not so much…ymmv

Instagram: Now rolling out…at long last story editing!

Instagram: You can now remove reposts of your posts that were shared by others (I’m not sold on loving this yet…)

Instagam: From the it’s about time files… Carousels can now be set up so each slide has it’s own caption

Instagram: Teleprompter is now available in Instagram! (also preach Gabi preach!)

Fediverse

Bluesky now allows you to include up to 10 images in a post

Other Platforms

LinkedIn: New Reach metric rolling out now including in network and out of network reach

Twitter: Unless you pay for verified, you are now limited to 50 posts and 200 replies per day

YouTube: Will now automatically label AI videos- using AI to id AI videos– what could possibly go wrong? 😏

Winning the Internet

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