Political Social Grab Bag – November 2025

Political Social Grab Bag

What am I thinking about?

There’s a lot of must reads in this month’s What Am I reading section so I’ll keep this short.

Today is t-minus 10 days til I head out on a much needed three week vacation that will start with, what else, an Eric Church show and end with a Chip Esten show and in between there will be beaches and sun. In light of that next month’s newsletter will be guest curated by Rosemari Ochoa…thanks in advance to her for helping me have a relaxing 3 weeks!

What am I reading?

A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world: My key takeaway: “At its core, consumer behavior is pushing a shift from performance to participation, <— this could be a boon for advocacy and mobilization on social media

Is ‘Going Viral’ Dead? –  Ignore the use of the V word…this is a good perspective on where social media is with food for thought for our strategies for 2026 and beyond

The Future of Feeds Will Change Your Marketing Strategy:  Just read this one. (Ed note: Disclosure the author is my concert BFF but she had no idea I was including this in my newsletter)

How platforms are handling the slop backlash: If you are as concerned about the effects the over abundance of slop is going to start to have on legitimate content as I am read this one

42% of social media users say the sites are important for them getting involved with political, social issues – Don’t let your org walk away from using social media just yet 😆

New Tools of Interest

File this under “we all knew this was coming”….OpenAI’s Sora app is now live errr AI generated live that is

Platform Updates

Meta Platforms

Instagram: Watch History for Reels is now rolling out

Instagram: Meta’s AI editing tools are now available to use in Stories

Facebook: say good bye to Community Chats

Facebook is getting ready to introduce a streamlined version of page categories and I find myself wondering if it’s too streamlined

Facebook has. made a change to how the algorithm delivers reels by prioritizing reels created the same day as the view is scrolling

Meta: Changed the definition of an engaged view conversion for ads

Meta has added a bunch of new reels and Threads ad options

Threads has hard launched Communities

Ghost posts have arrived on Threads

Fediverse

Mastodon: Now available: quote posts

Other Platforms

LinkedIn: Do you know your SSI?

Twitter; Whether you’re using it regularly or not, you should at least log into Twitter once a month to keep your user name off the the new auction block

Twitter: Hidden in this article is a tidbit that could 100% change the game on Twitter but not for the better…the possibility they will get rid of the algorithm completely and let Grok decide what content you should see

Twotter now has a setting you can opt into to prevent people from downloading the videos you post

LinkedIn is rolling out 2 new metrics in analytics- saves and direct sends

Linked in has renamed their ad campaign elements and now they align with other platforms naming conventions of pieces of the ad heirarchy

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