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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 3d

Democratic operatives and candidates need to stop being scared of their own shadows and internalize the notion that attention is good, that even negative attention might redound to their benefit and that the public is so easily distracted that no one is going to hold supposed gaffes against them

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 3d

More broadly, I think we increasingly live in a postgaffe, even a postscandal society.

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 3d

But because of how distracted and distractible the public has become, gaffes — or controversial and even offensive statements by candidates — do not matter the way they once did.

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 3d

Politicians and campaign staff members of a certain generation live in fear of the gaffe, the moment when a politician says something awkward or wrong or offensive that comes to define who the person is.

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 3d

No one checks your percentages — only your total numbers. You need to always be posting if you want a better chance of things going viral or at least ending up in the algorithmic slipstream that shoots it out to millions of eyeballs.

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 3d

It’s not just how you campaign and which outlets you talk to, though. Successful campaigns must prioritize producing content. One thing successful content creators will tell you about excelling in the world of digital attention is that there’s no penalty for quantity.

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 3d

This exact fear of things blowing up is what guided the communication strategy for much of the campaign as well. They were playing as if they had a lead when they didn’t.

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 3d

In her new book, Ms. Harris confirms this general risk aversion, noting that her first choice for a vice-presidential nominee was Pete Buttigieg but that she feared putting a gay man on the ticket would backfire.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...

Opinion | Chris Hayes: The Democrats’ Main Problem Isn’t Their Message

www.nytimes.com

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 3d

futurism.com/future-socie...

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

futurism.com

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 3d

Dohodneme sa, ze zo zaciatku to bolo o dost slabsie ako teraz?:) Z tych prvotnych protestov media reportovali "tisice" ludi v NYC, takze z toho vychadza to moje porovnanie s BB, ale nejdem sa o tom sporit, ved
nemaju to ani presne spocitane.

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 3d

Pred časom som tu písal, aké biedne je to v USA s protestami, že pri tých prvých prišlo proti Trumpovi v NYC menej ľudí ako u nás v Banskej Bystrici.

No. Trošičku sa to zlepšilo! 👏🫶

Sobotňajšie demonštrácie proti Trumpovi boli zrejme najväčšou jednodňovou protestnou akciou v USA od roku 1970.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 6d

www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Is Jonathan Haidt right about smartphones?

In ‘The Anxious Generation’, Haidt makes the case that social media and smartphones have ‘rewired’ today’s teenagers, but his critics say the evidence tells us something very different - and that bann...

www.tes.com

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 7d

To bude vskutku zaujímavé, ako toto raz dopadne

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 12d

algorithmwatch.org/en/birthday-...

Happy Birthday, Digital Services Act! – Time for a Reality Check - AlgorithmWatch

The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) celebrates its third birthday. This landmark digital regulation is meant to give a better understanding of how online services decide what users see, and more power...

algorithmwatch.org

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 12d

www.theregreview.org/2025/10/09/h...

Do Digital Regulations Hinder Innovation? | The Regulatory Review

Scholar offers alternative explanations on why the European Union falls behind in technological progress.

www.theregreview.org

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 12d

breached.company/brussels-tec...

Brussels' Tech Crackdown: Inside the EU's Expanding War on Major Platforms

From X to TikTok to Chinese e-commerce giants, the Digital Services Act has become Europe's most powerful weapon against Big Tech—with billions in fines hanging in the balance September 30, 2025 Whi...

breached.company

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 13d

www.cjr.org/analysis/cuo...

Cuomo deepfaked himself. You can too.

Public figures used to be off-limits in AI-generated video. A new Tow Center analysis shows how platforms are normalizing the practice.

www.cjr.org

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 13d

Optimist's view:

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic. We recoil from what feels fake. That’s why human creativity matters,” said Lee. “AI doesn’t dream. It doesn’t feel. It doesn’t make art. It aggregates it.”

www.theverge.com/news/797540/...

DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

www.theverge.com

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 15d

www.ft.com/content/6c2d...

EU pressure builds on Belgium to allow use of Russia’s frozen assets

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever insists other capitals should cover financial and legal risks of €140bn loan

www.ft.com

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 15d

www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

How Europe crushes innovation

Labour rules devised in the 20th century are hobbling Europe in the 21st

www.economist.com

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 15d

Tu som spísal, aké pokusy o ovplyvňovanie volieb sme mohli sledovať v Česku, Moldavsku a Rumunsku, čo sa tam presne dialo a čo si z toho vieme zobrať.

Lebo je to, ako hovorieval Bugár, setsakramentsky zaujímavé.

dennikn.sk/4890974/lekc...

Lekcie z Česka, Moldavska a Rumunska: ako sa bránia demokracie pred ruským vplyvom

Autor je publicista, odborník na sociálne siete, pracoval pre prezidentku Zuzanu Čaputovú a na ministerstve zdravotníctva V Česku to skúšali iba zľahka povinnou jazdou trolích fariem na TikToku. Molda...

dennikn.sk

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 17d

www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/met...

TTP - Meta Awash in Deepfake Scam Ads

Scammers are spending heavily on Facebook ads that use deepfake videos of President Trump, Elon Musk, and other political figures to hawk fake government benefits.

www.techtransparencyproject.org

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 20d

plus.rozhlas.cz/martin-fendr...

Martin Fendrych: TikTok masivně ovlivňuje české sněmovní volby

Centrum pro výzkum online rizik na konci září upozornilo, že stovky propojených anonymních účtů na českém TikToku systematicky šíří ruskou propagandu. Podporují antisystémové strany, jsou anonymní, vy...

plus.rozhlas.cz

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 20d

A team of researchers from New Zealand looked at headlines from 47 American publications. They found that between 2000 and 2019, the share of headlines meant to evoke anger more than doubled. The prevalence of headlines meant to evoke fear rose by 150 percent.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

Opinion | The Era of Dark Passions

www.nytimes.com

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Jakub Goda @jakubgoda.bsky.social · 22d

Ved ok, to je aspoň pomenovanie nejakej alternatívy. Len treba rátať, že: 1. Hlas nebude chcieť, 2. Hlas sa nedostane.

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