An editor for POLITICO and author of books including @Engagement_Book, @victorylab, "The Sushi Economy" and "The Lie Detectives."
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My book "THE LIE DETECTIVES: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age" is out now. It covers what I consider the most urgent frontier of political innovation: how to track, measure and respond to online disinformation. —> sashaissenberg.com
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When I visited Cambridge Analytica nearly three years ago, they wouldn’t explain how their data jumped from social-media apps to a voter file. Now we learn: they were laundering it from Facebook profiles. newsroom.fb.com/news/h/suspe… bloom.bg/2hJ9fUa
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Correction: The press conference that the White House announced would be held “at the Ritz” will actually take place next to the Ritz Crackers endcap-display in the snack food aisle of the Wawa at 7912 Roosevelt Boulevard.
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In the @nytimes view of the American political system, the people are represented by three separate yet equally important groups. These are their stories.
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There's no piece of culture coming in 2023 I anticipate as much as this RNC autopsy report.
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I wish Harry and Meghan the peace and meaning that will come from their inevitable conversion to Scientology.
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There was no Borat prank as subversive as manipulating Republicans into making a Village People song their party’s anthem.
Meanwhile in #PHX... Trump train continues... Small crowd now dancing to the YMCA at the Maricopa County elections dept.
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In the civil-litigation system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the Twitter users, who submit their guesses, and the retired politicians, who go prove them in court. These are their stories.
Up early working on PA.
@realDonaldTrump election night 800,000 lead was wiped out by hundreds of thousands of mail in ballots counted without any Republican observer.
Why were Republicans excluded?
Tweet me your guess, while I go prove it in court.
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If I hadn’t set a google alert for “shiva + naked” I might have missed this. jta.org/quick-reads/trump-sh…
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Is it possible more people worked on the NYT's article about the executive order than the order itself?
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If you want to understand why former Green Party campaigner @kyrstensinema is so enamored with bipartisanship and has such disdain for lefty activists, I have a story for you about something that happened #OnThisDay 15 years ago. —>
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I, too, have a book coming out this year. If you have ideas on how I can be muzzled with this type of exposure please contact my publicist.
It's time to stand up against the muzzling of America nypost.com/2021/01/24/its-ti… via @nypost
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Congratulations to @PeteButtigieg, who brings to his new role exceptional taste in literature.
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I did not expect to be looking to Germany’s chancellor as the world’s moral conscience and China’s president to defend the free market.
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My latest, perhaps the most difficult story I’ve ever had to report and write:
One of America's most accomplished political consultants, Hal Malchow, will die on Thursday.
He has one last urgent message for Democrats.
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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I hope the RNC's convention night devoted to "cancel culture" will focus on the urgent threat of self-deplatforming.
The RNC announces there will be no GOP platform for the convention — just support for Trump’s second-term agenda, whatever that is prod-cdn-static.gop.com/medi…
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Did Trump really think the appearance of someone's misfit brother at a major campaign event would rattle Hillary?
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The surprise shouldn't be in @TulsiGabbard leaving the Democratic party but in having ended up there in the first place. She is scion of a political dynasty responsible for mobilizing the world's first organized opposition to same-sex marriage rights.
From my @Engagement_Book:
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For the final time, can we marvel at the fact that the president of the United States's handle included the word "real" before his name?
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“You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.”
“I am big. It's the pictures that got small.”
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If you were wondering what would ever radicalize Joe Biden, it is probably the sight of random dudes dishonoring a carpet where Warren Magnuson once walked.
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CNN’s new graphics look like they come from the fake news broadcast in an action movie
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In retrospect, Hillary probably would have won had she warned us about the danger of electing a man you can bait with a retweet.
... started calling advisers and aides angry about the @BCAppelbaum RT by parks, accusing media of being out to get him. Trump's worst 2/
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The senator googling “how much is one kilo of gold worth” wasn’t even the most cartoonish act of political corruption to come out of New Jersey yesterday. newjerseyglobe.com/local/oce…
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Yesterday’s @HarvardIOP session summed up the election: interminable, petty, hard to watch, void of substance, inspiration or introspection.
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I assume this third-rate speller from the Failing New York Times who I don’t speak to and have nothing to do with meant to write “buy.”
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In 2011, I had an idea for a book I thought needed to be written. I was interviewing a lot of pollsters for @victorylab, and they kept on noting they had never seen opinion move as quickly on a single issue as it had on gay marriage. No one could readily explain why. ->
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Trump-Sanders coalition-building idea: nationalize Trump University and offer tuition-free education to all Americans.
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"The lesson Issenberg illuminates in his deeply reported and skillfully written examination of the global war on disinformation is that it’s a conflict that can never be won, only managed."
—@joshuagreen reviews THE LIE DETECTIVES in @monthly washingtonmonthly.com/2024/0…
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The greatest trick @NateSilver538 ever played was getting everyone to refer to all ideas and opinions as “priors.”
Christopher Hitchens was one of the great essayists in America. He would be unemployable today because there was no set of priors he wasn’t willing to offend. nytimes.com/2020/07/23/opini…
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Office pool: which Trump staffer will be sued first for violating NDA when he/she leaks embarrassing stuff during Nov. recrimination season?
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No wonder he has no use for Rudy: vilifying union leaders, selecting parade routes, haggling with factory owners, Trump is…America's Mayor.
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How’d Bernie win Oklahoma? Gather 'round me, children, a story I will tell, about Zach Fang and an app named Hustle. bloom.bg/1p3QKf4
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I believe this is what the Americans call “l’esprit de l’escalier.”
The problem is that Emmanuel suffers from a very low Approval Rating in France, 26%, and an unemployment rate of almost 10%. He was just trying to get onto another subject. By the way, there is no country more Nationalist than France, very proud people-and rightfully so!........
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Big managerial transfer from Jukt Micronics
Stephen Glass Named Atlanta United Interim Head Coach.
atlutd.com/post/2020/07/27/s…
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I’d assess a non-zero chance that on election day 2020 the daughter-in-law of one presidential candidate could be the other’s ex-wife.
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Meet the new edition of @victorylab, featuring chapter on the right's secret prep for 2016. amzn.to/1XV0zLC
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I wrote a thread on John Lewis and gay marriage, based on research for @Engagement_Book.
John Lewis was one of the first American elected officials of any prominence to express support for, or at least acceptance of, same-sex marriage. Here's a bit on how that happened and why that mattered:
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More Americans get their media scuttlebutt from the President of the United States than from any other source.
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Thank you, @HuffingtonPost, for your courageous stand against vainglorious celebrity campaigns for public office.
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For nearly a decade, I’ve been asked if I would write a sequel to @victorylab. I always said I didn’t know what the story there would be. Now I do.
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If only there were a shorter, snappier term for such people. nitter.app/SopanDeb/status/767243…
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Remarkable that the first verb in a reporter's job description is "influence" and not "describe" or "investigate."
The Post seeks a reporter to cover the intersection of race, ethnicity and business economics bit.ly/1qHP3Vp
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My book has some of the best non-readers, believe me.
Also, Mark Cuban tells me he sent @victorylab to Trump and encouraged him to read it. Didn't hear back. CC: @sissenberg
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“I am wife of Fmr. Pres Bill Clinton. On behalf of US Foreign Ministry, I seek partner who can wire sum of $400,000 to Clinton Foundation.”
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Flyin’ Ted! He brings the passport, holds it high, puts it down, and then he flies.
Sen. Ted Cruz checks his documentation at the Cancun International Airport before boarding his plane back to the U.S. abcn.ws/3azqdBb
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Death of commission-hosted debates and Iowa/NH early-state duopoly, permanent disuse of matching-fund system: the end of the 1976-2020 presidential campaign era.
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“It’s unclear whether Lankford, who has no formal legal training, was aware of the legal age of consent at the time of his deposition.” apnews.com/article/2022-midt…
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Do it and be legends
NEW: Trump has talked to associates in recent days about starting a new party after he leaves the White House.
He wants to call it the Patriot Party.
wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-i…
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Tired: Illinois Democrats voting from the dead
Wired: Maryland Republicans voting for the dead
Scoop w/ @ErinatThePost: Turned off by President Trump, Maryland’s GOP governor Larry Hogan casts write-in vote for Ronald Reagan... washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Just the historical figure whose wisdom want to identify with on a day when you’re accused of embracing dated anti-Semitic tropes
Henry Ford would be very disappointed if he saw his modern-day descendants wanting to build a much more expensive car, that is far less safe and doesn’t work as well, because execs don’t want to fight California regulators. Car companies should know....
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Happy pub day to @maggieNYT!
“Confidence Man” will do what you probably consider impossible: change the way you see Donald Trump. Anyone who wants to understand why his presidency turned out the way it did should read this book. amzn.to/3EnoEVY
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Ted Cruz knows exactly what he’s doing, etc. Inside his perpetual campaign for 2020 and beyond: bloom.bg/2atfCH3
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Thank you, Mr. President, for honoring a dying man's final wish:
"Let me be remembered not for the films in which I appeared, nor the acting awards I won, but for the zoning variances I helped to secure."
The legendary actor, 007 Sean Connery, has past on to even greener fairways. He was quite a guy, and a tough character. I was having a very hard time getting approvals for a big development in Scotland when Sean stepped in and shouted,“Let him build the damn thing”. That was....
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For more on this, and its place in the broader political and legal struggle over gay marriage, check out my @Engagement_Book, which @nytimesbooks called a "lively, thorough and fascinating history." sashaissenberg.com
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If Paul Ryan is really so smart, why didn’t he use one of his four conditions to ask for more conditions?
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Ultimately I did not complete the manuscript until 2018, and then various publishing-industry adventures and pandemic-related stoppages slowed things down. But after a decade, @Engagement_Book is finally ready to read. Learn more and order here: sashaissenberg.com
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Inside the Trump Bunker, With 12 Days to Go: my new @bw cover story with @joshuagreen. bloom.bg/2eIU76P
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I’ve got a story to tell you.
It’s about the largest election-fraud conspiracy in American history (until now) and the churchgoing suffragist who partnered with a reformed-murderer-turned-crusading-prosecutor to expose it and send 116 men to prison. —> smithsonianmag.com/history/t…
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This week @JoeBiden will host a South Lawn ceremony to enact the Respect for Marriage Act. It undoes the Defense of Marriage Act, which @BillClinton signed at midnight out of public view.
From @Engagement_Book, here is the full story of how that happened: politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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