Katie Harbath
Policy/elections analyst who live‑listens to investor calls (e.g., Meta) and connects management guidance/AI remarks to broader implications.
Conservatives Missing on Substack Leaves Money on Table
A look from @kylewilsontharp at left and right-leaning voices on Substack: There's a ceiling on how much money you can squeeze out of a progressive audience ... the lack of conservative influencers on the platform represents money left on the table. https://www.chaoticera.news/p/new-data-the-biggest-political-news-publications-on-substack
Social Media and Video Overtake TV as Top News Sources
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. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2026/dnr-executive-summary
Voters Trust AI for Fact‑checking,
I partnered with the @raineycenter to poll 1,010 likely voters on AI and the 2026 elections. Pair that with ForumAI's benchmark of 12,500+ chatbot responses and a picture emerges. The core disconnect: 1️⃣ 43% of voters who use AI for politics are...
Personalized Feeds Raise Individual vs Collective Tradeoffs
This morning I listened to Meta’s Q1 earnings call. While Wall Street is focused on numbers, I'm focused on what they said about personalization. Your feed is getting more personal. Eventually, the content will be created specifically for you. It’s making...
Anthropic Boosts Claude for Midterms with Bias Safeguards
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. https://www.anthropic.com/news/election-safeguards-update
Atlantic Consistently Targets Trump's Top Drinkers
David Maraniss is interviewing Jonathan Goldberg of the Atlantic at the UW-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics Shadid Awards and opens with the observation that the Atlantic has a tendency to rub up against the biggest drinkers of the Trump administration...
Boston Globe Features AI‑Era West Wing Reimagining
Excited that the Boston Globe featured my recent piece reimagining the West Wing in the AI age in their tech newsletter today. Part two drops tomorrow. Sign up to be the first to get it! https://anchorchange.substack.com
GOP Leverages AI for Voter Modeling, Democrats Lag
Watch this space - Axios: GOP strategists are using AI to quickly simulate voters' attitudes toward events such as the Iran war...By contrast, Democratic operatives have been much slower to adopt the technology in their campaigns. https://www.axios.com/2026/04/14/republicans-ai-campaigns-democrats-2026
Orban's Traditional Media Grip Falters on Social Platforms
Politico - Orbán lost on social media: Orbán dominated traditional media channels, where Fidesz is estimated to control roughly 80 percent of the landscape, by installing loyalists in public media and enabling Fidesz-aligned business figures to acquire hundreds of regional...
AI Disclaimers Undermine Trust in Political Ads
From the American Association of Political Consultants Foundation: The "disclaimer effect" is real. When viewers saw an AI disclosure on a political ad, their trust and receptivity to the message dropped sharply — even when the ad contained no actual...