Political Social Grab Bag – March 2026

Political Social Grab Bag

What am I thinking about?

Consistency. That word has been on my mind a lot lately. Consistency in branding. Consistency in being strategic in everything we do. The lack of consistency from the platforms themselves. Consistency in process while still being flexible for moments that present themselves. This month’s Digital Strategy Quick Hits will dive deeper on this but for the purposes of today I’ll just challenge you to think about how you can be more consistent in your work in a way that will make you more productive and help you avoid burnout.

Trainings & Webinar Alerts

What am I reading?

Exclusive: US Senators unveil bill to prevent scam ads on social media platforms – Keep an eye on this (note: political advertisers already submit govt id to verified for advertising)

Instagram Stickers: Tips and Tricks for Finding the Best Ones – Good explainer of IG Stickers

What the hell is Moltbook, the social network for AI agents? – Damn good question also why?

Maintaining brand relevancy: Here’s what the numbers say – I think this is relevant for organizations as well

New Platforms Won’t Save Social Media: Here’s What’s Actually Shifting – Your must read of the month

New Tools of Interest

Xikipedia – a social media style feed of Wikipedia entries

Synchrony– a new social platform built for neurodivergent people

Platform Updates

Meta Platforms

Facebook: Page admins can now mention top fans in a post once a day

Instagram now shows likes from cross posted content to Threads

Threads: at last you can manage Threads through Meta Business Suite and you can directly share your posts as IG stories

WhatsApp now has a “Mention All” feature to tag everyone in a group

WhatsApp at long last has Group Message History

Fediverse

Bluesky: New at last, drafts!

Bluesky: direct integration with Germ DM for end-to-end encrypted DMs

Other Platforms

Reddit: Testing is expanding for Reminder Ads

Tiktok: New UI for post description section

Twitter: You can now add images to in-stream polls

Twitter’s new immersive video player is optimized for vertical video

YouTube: has expanded access to auto-dubbing and expanded it to 27 languages

YouTube: New feature to automatically turn on captions when a user mutes device while watching a video (even more reason to be using captions on all video!) and an “add motion” option for shorts

Don’t Try This At Home

I guess they’ve never heard of the way back machine?

Winning the Internet

GREAT IDEA!

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