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Enlarge / Quaaaack. (credit: flickr user: caribooooou) Crowdfunding is big business for healthcare. GoFundMe alone has raised more than $ 5 billion in the last eight years, with one out of every three campaigns raising money to cover healthcare costs, according to GoFundMe’s CEO. Often, these campaigns are for the uninsured or underinsured, and help […]
Enlarge / This image was the profile banner of one of the accounts allegedly run by the Internet Research Agency, the organization that ran social media “influence campaigns” in Russia, Germany, Ukraine, and the US dating back to 2009. (credit: A Russian Troll) Twitter has released a data store of posts from 3,841 accounts that […]
Attention, TV casting directors: It’s time to find a Hillary Clinton for the small screen. Warner Bros. TV has acquired the rights to Amy Chozick’s memoir Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and One Intact Glass Ceiling, with plans to develop the book into a series, our sister site Deadline reports. Published in April 2018, Chasing […]
Parliament TV Cambridge Analytica may have broken US election laws by having dozens of its foreign employees serve in decision-making roles on Republican campaigns in 2014. Whistleblower Christopher Wylie said he sat in on several high-level campaign conference calls that featured foreign-born Cambridge Analytica leaders. The group advised these campaigns on how to target and […]
Lintao Zhang/Pool/Getty Images The key difference between China and Russia’s influence campaigns is that China is better at it, according to a former Australian government adviser. China is patient and plays the long game, while Russia tends to commit to “focused, sharp strikes.” Australia has been grappling with how to handle apparent attempts by the […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s main diet on the campaign trail included a lot of McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza, and Diet Coke, according to a new tell-all book written by former aides. The aides described detailed efforts to time the delivery of hot fast food with Trump’s departure from his campaign rallies. […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Ahead of a Tuesday hearing on Capitol Hill, a combination of leaked statements and official blogs confirmed wider-ranging impact by Russian “state actors” on platforms operated by Facebook and Google than the companies had previously disclosed. Reports from the Washington Post and Recode separately claim that Facebook’s Tuesday testimony will state that up […]
There’s a good chance that you’ve never heard of NationBuilder even though it might be one of the most influential services on the internet. The political software and platform is used by politicians of all stripes to build their websites, manage email campaigns, and raise money. One of its more notable clients is President Donald […]
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With food fights and political statements by Harry Potter, Yoda, Aladdin and Pamela Anderson – French presidential election campaigns are far from boring recitations of candidates’ agendas. Although eleven candidates have signed up for the election, media attention concentrated on four “heroes,”who are neck and neck in opinion polls. Meet Republican Francois Fillon, the right-wing […]
