A description from Meta about the state of their social media in the recent election cycle (including covert foreign influence operations Meta says it detected and quashed). Of course, it’d be nice if ...

Marketplace does the numbers … and I’m not sure this accounts for the value of billionaire-driven social media.

H/t to Sean Parnell for the new paper by Ron Rivest and Philip Stark: National Popular Vote (NPV) Interstate Compact [Koza et al., 2024] attempts to provide direct presidential elections in the U.S.

At least a few election workers are likely breathing just a bit easier.

Your regular reminder that the 2024 elections aren’t over, and I’m not just talking about the counting and certifying.  Local runoffs in Georgia are today, and runoffs (and state constitutional ...

Popular Information with a deep dive on the sketchy crypto thing that isn’t $6.2 million for a banana.    Get ready for the return of (and four-year procedural turmoil over) the emoluments cases. Law ...

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders expand the frame in The Conversation.

The Seattle Times reports on Monday’s appellate decision regarding violations of Washington’s disclosure law.  The state’s Public Disclosure Commission is quoted as saying the judgment is believed to ...

Here’s the statement – which is undated but appears to be new – throwing True the Vote under the bus and also maintaining confidence in the “underlying premise” of the film … but in a nonspecific way ...

USA Today out with a Monday report on Georgia’s audit of the 2024 elections, completed last week. The full ballot image audit report is here.

WaPo on another rocky rule-of-law road ahead for a potential nominee. Wray, of course, was appointed by Trump in 2017 to a ten-year term. I’ve noted a few times now that Senators aren’t immune from an ...

I’m really looking forward to reading this new paper in Science (Killian L. McLoughlin, William J. Brady, Aden Goolsbee, Ben Kaiser, Kate Klonick, and M. J. Crockett.) With a bonus thread by Crockett ...