I'm planning the book tour for Disrupting Politics and building the list of people and places to include, as I don't want to miss anyone who wants to be there. Fill out this form if you want to be notified when I'll be in your city! forms.gle/sAb7Vza3c3VH...

I wrote Disrupting Politics for many reasons, but one was that I didn't want anyone else telling my story. This book is dedicated to the people in the arena with me: trust and safety, campaigns, tech policy, doing hard work that rarely gets the nuance it deserves. open.substack.com/pub/anchorch...

Why I Wrote Disrupting Politics and Why It's Not Just About Facebook

An insider's look at the decisions nobody had a playbook for and why I had to tell it myself

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Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

An AI slop reporting button? What could possibly go wrong?? 1/ www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button

Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.

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Ahhhhh - my book is real! This is the first time I’ve held it in my hands. Disrupting Politics: A Front Row Seat to the Collision of Technology and Democracy coming October 6.

Friendly PSA: SXSW Panel Picker proposals are due Sunday, June 26th by 11:59 pm PT. sxsw.com/apply/panelp...

SXSW PanelPicker®: Community-Sourced Sessions

SXSW PanelPicker® is the official SXSW user-generated session proposal platform. Each year, the SXSW community enters session ideas and votes on proposals to help shape the SXSW Conference programming...

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Staying on brand as the least appropriate person on the #TrustCon stage

Tired of writing that weekly or monthly memo all the time? It’s a great example of where you can use AI and I wrote a step-by-step guide of how I am doing it. open.substack.com/pub/anchorch...

How I Use AI to Write the Recurring Memos We All Have to Do

A start-to-finish walkthrough of the full setup

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My book has a release date! Disrupting Politics: A Front Row Seat to the Collision of Technology and Democracy — out October 6, 2026. Get a look at the cover + back cover copy. Pre-order link available soon. anchorchange.substack.com/p/disrupting...

My Book, Disrupting Politics, Is Coming October 6th

Get a first look at the cover and the back cover copy

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Reuters Digital News Report: For the first time, social media and video networks are, on average across the markets covered, more popular than both TV and owned news websites and apps as sources of news. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...

Overview and key findings of the 2026 Digital News Report

Our 2026 report finds news audiences around the world reacting with growing unease to successive episodes of political, economic, and technological turbulence. Assumptions about the way the world work...

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Does anyone else think that this monstrosity on the South Lawn is right out of the dystopian 1985 in Back to the Future? Biff even looks like Trump.

Everyone's talking about AI in campaigns, but it’s hard to measure. That’s why Amanda Elliott, @kylewilsontharp.bsky.social, @ericwilson.bsky.social and myself are running a survey on how political pros are using AI. If you work in campaigns and politics we need your input! gforms.app/j5nTd6r

AI Use by Campaigns Survey

A survey of campaign professionals, consultants, and political organizations gathering insight into how AI is being used across campaigns and political work today. This survey is anonymous and results...

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@katieharbath.bsky.social and I found that we have many mutual subscribers to our newsletters (@eimdotco.bsky.social and Anchor Change) and that they value how differently we cover tech policy and T&S. So we found a way to sign up for both in one go. Fill yer boots! trustfnd.com/katieharbath...

Trustfnd | Trust and Safety Bundle

Two creators collaborating.

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In Meta’s Q1 earnings call, they focused on how AI is making our feeds more personal. It’s making me think about how we manage the tradeoffs between what's optimized for each of us individually might not be automatically good for us collectively. anchorchange.substack.com/p/ai-optimiz...

AI Optimized for Me. Optimized for You. But What About Us?

What Meta's Q1 earnings reveal about the personalization tradeoff — and what we might lose along the way.

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Missed this on Friday. Anthropic dropped an update on Claude's midterm preparedness including work on political bias evaluations, policy enforcement mechanisms, and influence operation resistance testing. www.anthropic.com/news/electio...

An update on our election safeguards

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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In 2017, it took us months to define “political ad” at Facebook. Recently, I built two political content classifiers in an afternoon using Zentropi AI created by @dwillner.bsky.social and @samidh.bsky.social Why AI content moderation is good, actually — in this week’s newsletter 👇

Why AI Makes Content Moderation Better, Not Worse

Building a political content labeler with AI — what actually works

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Thrilled to publish my latest article BAN COOKIE BANNERS: A CASE STUDY IN TECH REGULATION with the Harv. J. of Law & Tech! A cri de cœur to end this worse-than-useless regulatory compliance regime and let something that actually protects users take its place. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/

There's a major gap in content safety tooling: classifiers typically only score complete text. When you're working with generative AI, "complete text" means the user already saw it. That's too late. So we built a streaming classifier that we're releasing today! Here's what we did and why. 🧵...

I partnered with the Rainey Center to poll 1,008 Americans on AI, media consumption, and tech policy heading into 2026. The toplines looked coherent. The crosstabs told a completely different story. Here are the six contradictions that stood out: 🧵1/3

I'm looking for some good examples of AI disclosure policies that writers, media and others have made public to share how they use AI in their work. What are your favorites?

We're in the last throes of where we were as a society versus where we're going when it comes to the impact of AI. It’s called the extinction burst. In my latest Off the Record Briefing, I break down the real problems we need to be thinking about. anchorchange.substack.com/p/the-ai-ext...

The AI Extinction Burst

Off the Record briefing for February 2026

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@axios.com is reporting that the WH will turn all their digital assets into "Trump TV" today for 12 hours before the SOTU. This is one of the smarter digital things Trump has done, going back to the 2016 debates, to own the viewer journey from start to finish. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Axios AM

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This week, I'm publishing my 2026 AI & Election Tech Forecast—focused intelligence on how major platforms are navigating the collision of AI, elections, and content moderation. Up first: Meta. What I'm watching: 💰 $65 million in corporate spending on pro-AI candidates 1/3

If you missed my conversation with Chris Cillizza (@chriscillizza.bsky.social) yesterday about AI, tech and the midterms the recording is now up! chriscillizza.substack.com/p/2026-will-...

2026 Will Be the First AI Election. Full Stop. 🤖🗳️

A conversation with Katie Harbath

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Politics is heavy. The pace of AI is exhausting. We're at the start of what might be the most consequential four-year cycle for tech and politics we've seen yet. In my latest newsletter, I break down what's actually different this time. open.substack.com/pub/anchorch...

How to Read Tech Platforms During a Never-Ending Election Cycle

The 2026 midterms start a four-year period where platforms, politicians, and AI reshape each other. Here's what to watch when no one knows what's coming next...

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America's digital empire has a trust problem. U.S. hyperscalers' future may depend less on the commercial deals they strike and more on their commitment to protect the democracy that made their global dominance possible. My latest for @wpr.bsky.social www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-hyperscal...

America’s Digital Empire Has a Trust Problem

One year into Donald Trump’s presidency, foreign nations are increasingly skittish about their dependence on U.S. tech companies.

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"Which events should I attend in 2026?" Here's my framework of what I do before, during and after attending something. Later this week, I’m sending subscribers a full list of the calendar of events I’m tracking in 2026. Sign up to be the first to get it! anchorchange.substack.com/p/how-i-deci...

How I Decide Which Events Actually Matter

A look inside my process for navigating conferences, summits, and what comes after

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Over the weekend I used Zentropi to build a labeler that blocks requests to use AI to undress or sexualize real people. The labeler itself took maybe 30 minutes to a first solid draft, with another 30 minutes of tweaking. In my testing it's got an F1 of .98 on real examples pulled from X. 🧵 1/6

Trust in the word I keep hearing for 2026. In my new Off the Record briefing I explore: ➡️ Why “trust” is becoming an infrastructure layer ➡️ How agents are quietly becoming the new editors ➡️ What 2026’s AI-native election cycle will look like open.substack.com/pub/anchorch...

Off-the-Record Briefing: January 2026

How the ground is shifting under AI, media, and trust.

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15K followers (+58%) from 93 countries, 163 posts, and 22 podcasts. Thank you for showing up to navigate tech, democracy & impossible tradeoffs with me. 2026 = book launch + figuring out what's next. Here's to the risks we take. Have a lovely holidays!🥂 open.substack.com/pub/anchorch...

Anchor Change in 2025

A Year in Review (and What's Next)

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