Meta allows deepfake "election cancelled" content to spread in #Aras25
This video is worrying; it shows a combination of both intent and skill in building out very deceptive content, in a way that resonates with Irish audiences.
Comedy wins in #Aras25 content battle
Aoife Dunne's "Sorry now" video is one of the most subtle yet devastating pieces of political content I have ever seen.
Fine Gael's Attack Video: Áras25 in Content
By burying the lede and handing over airtime, have Fine Gael committed an own goal?
Our first American-style election?
Our politics is a techno-coloured pick-and-mix, this election is a Soviet department store
The financial hit of Jim Gavin bowing out
Fianna Fáil unlikely to get the €250k back from the state they would have if Jim Gavin had run
Is Google rewriting history?
Have the dates on Google's Fidesz ads changed in its ad archive?
Google just erased 7 years of our political history
Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search and for display ads - for countless elections across 27 countries - is all gone. We had been told
Which news sites are surviving the death of Google optimisation?
3 good reads and some Linkedin news you can use
The first #Aras25 ads are out
What the first political ads tell us about how the campaign might look
News
Is violence an inevitable byproduct of the attention economy?
We need to start looking at this kind of performative violence as an endemic byproduct of the attention economy
Irish Politics
Campaigning likes it 1999 (when it feels like its 1938)
How do you run a political campaign without digital ads? I asked two of our best campaign gurus what we might expect.
Musk's profoundly ignorant and dangerous intervention in #Aras25
I really, really hope this isn't the start of a whole thing. Elon Musk has tweeted about the race for the Aras in the most profoundly ignorant and stupidly dangerous way possible. The tweet is screenshot below; in it Musk sub-tweets another tweet claiming Simon Harris "ordered