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How A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever to Microtarget Voters

2 November 2026 at 14:55
Hyper-personalized messages, delivered with A.I.-enabled precision, herald a new frontier for voter outreach (and potential disinformation).

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Microtargeting technology can help campaigns build more sophisticated models about constituent preferences that can be used to test various messaging in real time.

Darline Graham Gets Help From the Data Center Industry in South Carolina Senate Race

As political fights over artificial intelligence accelerate, there is now a super PAC aligned with the data center industry. Its first bet is on Ms. Graham, a Republican in an unexpectedly tight race.

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Senator Darline Graham of South Carolina has been friendlier toward the data center industry than her Democratic opponent, trying to walk a line between backing the centers’ development as a national security necessity while stressing the need for community involvement.

Meta Withdraws $25 Million from Its Midterms Push

16 October 2026 at 20:58
The company outlined a $65 million budget last year when it embarked on an effort to elect state politicians friendly to the A.I. industry.

Β© Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times

Meta’s annual conference last month in Menlo Park, Calif. The company received $22 million back from its American Technology Excellence Project and $3 million from a California advocacy group it funded.
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