Political Social Grab Bag – June 2023

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Political Social Grab Bag
 

Ed note: This newsletter contains news from April and May as due to taking time off after a family death I did not send a newsletter out May 1. Thank you to those who noticed and emailed checking to make sure I was ok 🙂

 

Before you ask, yes I am now on Bluesky (spedwybabs.bsky.social) and I don’t have any invites to share however I do have T2 invites (yep spedwybabs there too)…5 of em so if you want one now’s the time to ask 🙂

 

This one is important if you do political campaigning subject to FEC regulation:

Make sure you read these new requirements about disclosures for online content

Trainings & Webinar Alerts

New training! Action Network & Action Builder– July 10 & 11 in Chicago in partnership with our friends at Action Network & Action Builder

2 Netroots Nation trainings:

Social Media News You Can Use– 900am Thurs July 13 in Astoria Room

Social Media Platforms: Beyond the Big 5– 245pm Fri July 14 in Astoria Room with co trainer Rosemari Ochoa

Advanced Digital Bootcamp– via zoom Aug 7-11- applications close July 1

 

What am I reading?

Kevin Systrom: One Of These Social Platforms May Well Become The Everything App – Great interview with one of the IG co-founders who recently launched Artifact

AI and Political Campaigns: Let’s Get Real – Great primer on things to think about as we figure out the intersection of campaigning and AI

Brace Yourself for the 2024 Deepfake Election – Millions of words are being written about AI (by both AI and actual people) but this one is worth the read and some serious thought about how we move forward

U.S. Supreme Court to decide if public officials can block critics on social media – Keep an eye on this case

New Tools of Interest

Coming soon- “Barcelona” Meta’s Twitter clone- likely by end of summer

Platform Updates

Facebook

The blending of algorithm and AI on the FB Newsfeed continues…currently at 20% AI it’s expected to double in the next few months

If you admin a FB page that doesn’t yet have the “new” page experience…June 5 is the newly announced date when everyone will be forced into it, want it or not

Big *and annoying* change to FB Ad Location targeting…the dropdown menu to choose to target only the people who live in the geograhic area you are targeting is gone (RIP my ads when I travel)

Changes to the Lead Gen Ad question flow with the addition of dynamic questions aka conditional logic means it’ll be easier to use Lead Gen Ads for short surveys

Instagram

Twitter

Twitter released it’s algorithm for the world to see and this thread from Roawn Cheung has a pretty good summary of the nuggets you should know about

As you may know Twitter has brought back political ads– whether you should use them or not is a question only you can answer but if you choose to you’ll be happy to know that Keyword targeting has returned

Speaking of Twitter ads…if you’re going to run them then your Twitter account must be subscribed to Twitter Blue

Other Platforms

TikTok got banned in Montana effective Jan 2024– will it stand? Stay tuned as it works it’s way thru the courts

TikTok has added auto generation of captions for live streams

LinkedIn added an algorithm to it’s content serving methodology

LinkedIn now has a verified badge….and it’s free

LinkedIn has added a “values” search filter for job searchesTikTok still lets you upload a 10 minute video but you can no longer film it directly in TikTok itself

Substack Notes or in other words Substack tries to be a social media platform instead of a content platform

Artifact moves from a glorified RSS feed to social by adding in comments on articles and it now lets you follow specific writers

Mastodon is still a decentralized platform but it has changed the sign up work flow to default to everyone signing up to a central Mastodon run server while everyone continues to have the option to then switch servers whenever they wish

YouTube is now blocking ad blockers

Say good bye to YouTube Stories

WhatsApp now lets you edit messages within 15 minutes of sending

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