Twenty-five years at the intersection of technology and democracy — inside the campaigns, the platforms, and the rooms where the decisions got made. The synthesis, the patterns, and the early warnings from someone who was actually in the machine.
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The Social Reckoning Has an Anti-Hero and No Theory of Change
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Five years ago this week, I was at my parents’ cabin in Eagle River, Wisconsin. The Packers had just beaten the Steelers, and my family was sitting down to dinner. My phone wouldn’t stop lighting up.
“Who is it?”...
Disrupting Politics Out Today
Disrupting Politics is out today. I can’t believe I can finally say those words!
Ten years ago next month, I sat at a green light on Constitution Avenue the morning after the 2016 election. The car behind me honked. I didn’t move. That lig...
Our Next Mountain or Our Own Grave
In 2018, Facebook built a war room to protect elections and invited reporters in to see it. What happened in the months before that is harder to show on a tour. This excerpt from Disrupting Politics picks up right after the Cambridge Analyt...
AI Slop Isn't the Problem. AI Candy Is.
I was listening to Mark Zuckerberg talk about Meta’s future on the July 2026 earnings call when one phrase jumped out at me.
He was talking about how AI is changing Facebook and Instagram’s recommendation systems, making them better at und...
The Canary in the Coal Mine
Disrupting Politics comes out October 6. Today's excerpt goes back to the spring of 2016: Maria Ressa warning Facebook about Duterte's disinformation machine — and the Trending Topics scandal that exploded on May 9 — the same day as the Phi...
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Founder of Anchor Change. Twenty-five years at the intersection of tech, politics, and democracy. Ex-Facebook. Writing the book about it. "Election whisperer to the tech industry" — Foreign Policy. Proud Wisconsinite.
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