What I Read This Week…

Political campaigns are increasingly using influencers to reach voters, the M7 has reached new all-time highs in the stock market, and researchers discovered how visual clutter affects brain function

Watch All-In E201 (Skip the first few minutes) Read our Deep Dive: Is India the Next Economic Giant? Caught My Eye… Political campaigns and super PACs are increasingly using social media influencers to reach voters, operating without the disclosure requirements that govern traditional political advertising. How is this new form of political advertising working, and what are its implications? Both the Harris and Trump campaigns are allocating campaign dollars on influencer marketing, with individual creators earning anywhere from $200 to $100,000 per post depending on the size of their…

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• Your Feed Is the Product of a Stealth Marketing Campaignvulture.com
• The Anxiety of Influencers, by Barrett Swansonharpers.org
• Trump, Mamdani, and Cluelykyla.substack.com
• Quebec Influencers Sell Partisan Politics Ahead of October Electiontherover.ca
• Ledger of Harmsledger.humanetech.com
• Key legal issues for influencers and brands (and how to deal with them) | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
• Astroturfing - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
• How Fake People Became Real Influencers - The Atlantictheatlantic.com
• Markets in fact-checking - Works in Progress Magazineworksinprogress.co
• "AI-generated" is the new "fake news" | Global Witnessglobalwitness.org