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Google releases political ad directory
Google is rolling out the online library of US political ads it promised lawmakers in 2017, along with a report detailing political ad-spending trends across its platforms.
All the Trump 2018 stuff we couldn't fit in our news cycle chart (Axios)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 08/13/2018 - 11:15The insane Trump news cycle of 2018 in one chart (Axios)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 08/13/2018 - 11:15How tech fuels authoritarians
We always assumed technology and the naked transparency of social media would feed people’s taste for freedom and thirst for democracy. Right now, that assumption looks flawed -- technology might actually solidify the standing of despots and provide them with a new way to exert their power. Ian Bremmer — political scientist, president and founder of Eurasia Group, and author of "Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism" — recently unpacked this issue in a letter to clients.
The local TV consolidation race is here
Changes in decades-old broadcasting rules, combined with new types of competition in news and entertainment, are creating a drama-filled free-for-all as local US broadcasters consolidate. Consolidation will inevitably mean that fewer voices reach more people, but some in the industry argue it's the only way local broadcasting will be able to compete with big tech. Of all TV news products, local television still has the largest audience by far compared to national and cable. But it's also been hit with the greatest decline among the three types of traditional TV.
How movie theaters are surviving big tech (Axios)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 08:45White House officials met tech industry reps about tariffs (Axios)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 08/07/2018 - 11:22YouTube, Google and Waze combined to account for 34.2% of all time on digital media in June 2018 (Axios)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 08/07/2018 - 11:06Why China hasn't followed Russia on disinformation — yet
The Chinese government certainly has the ability to pursue an online political disinformation campaign directed at foreign elections — but hasn’t yet because it favors long-term thinking over Russia’s scorched-earth foreign policy, experts said. Researchers note that China could turn its sights on the US if it wanted to. “The question for me and some other researchers is: will they make that jump more aggressively to the English language space in the more heavy-handed manipulation sense?