More from The 2024 election
In an Instagram post shared shortly after the first presidential debate between Harris and Donald Trump, the star ended the will-she-won’t-she speculation and threw her support behind the Harris/Walz ticket. Interestingly, she cited recent AI-generated fake images of herself:
Recently I was made aware that AI of ‘me’ falsely endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential run was posted to his site. It really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation. It brought me to the conclusion that I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter.
Meanwhile, Trump claims that under a Harris presidency, “Oil will be dead. Fossil fuel will be dead. We’ll go back to windmills and we’ll go back to solar.”
I will not ban fracking. I have not banned fracking as Vice President of the United States and in fact I was the tie breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act which opened new leases on fracking.
Climate advocates previously hoped Harris would take a tougher stance against fracking. This statement in tonight’s debate repeats a promise she made in her CNN interview last month.
In tonight’s debate, she describes her China policy as making sure the US “wins the competition for the 21st century” through investments in “American-based technology,” claiming that under Trump, American chips were sold to China and used to modernize its military.
Trump counters, “They bought their chips from Taiwan. We hardly make chips anymore because of philosophies like they have.” He then winds himself up into a tirade on Marxism?
Karen Dunn, a partner at the law firm Paul Weiss, has been busy this week. It’s no wonder Virginia federal judge Leonie Brinkema told Dunn she could be on her way just after she opened Google’s defense against ad tech monopolization charges.
The presidential campaign finally has an “Issues” section on its website, which may quell some criticism that the campaign has been withholding or has dodged questions.
Featured on the website: protections for renters, investments in child care, and reproductive freedom, among others. But there’s still a lot we don’t know, particularly around Harris’ tech policy.
[Kamala Harris for President: Official Campaign Website]
The company announced today it would extend restrictions on election-related queries to more AI services including AI Overviews in Search, YouTube Live Chat summaries, and image generation in Gemini. It’s an expansion of the policy Google announced last December.
In her first interview since becoming the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN’s Dana Bash that her “values have not changed,” even though when she ran for the nomination in 2019, she said she was in favor of a ban. Fracking, of course, is a lightning rod issue in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania.
Courtney Baldwin, a youth organizer and human trafficking survivor, reminded voters at the DNC that Harris helped take down the classified site often used for sex work — and, prosecutors alleged, sex trafficking.
Sex workers who used Backpage to screen clients, however, have said the website’s shutdown has made them less safe.
Kamala Harris is the latest participant on Track Star, a TikTok game show where players identify a song for money.
Internet shows like Track Star are a new kind of media circuit for public figures. Democrats want these viral moments — and they’re trying hard to make them happen.
Tony West, who also served in the Department of Justice during the Obama administration, just spoke at the DNC. Of course, he wasn’t there to talk tech, but rather, to speak to Harris’ character.
Olivia Julianna was the latest influencer to get speaking time at the convention, in a nod to young voters and the new ways they consume media. Over the past two nights, the DNC said that “partner-created content” has received 85 million views.
After The New York Times reported that Walz was a Dreamcast fan, IGN did the legwork to find that he apparently really liked Crazy Taxi. Now I’m wondering if Walz knows all the lyrics to “Escape From the City,” too.
We must take on Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Ag, Big Tech, and all the other corporate monopolists whose greed is denying progress for working people.
There’s a separate song playing for each group of delegates during the DNC roll call (“Empire State of Mind” for New York, “Lose Yourself” for Michigan, and that one Dropkick Murphys song for Massachusetts). Who processed these copyright clearances? Who decided “The Next Episode” is the theme song for the state of California?
The former president said that Elon Musk is “a very smart guy. I certainly would, if he would do it.” The comment is a sign that Musk’s efforts to elect Trump could be personally beneficial, if they’re successful. Yet in the same interview with Reuters, Trump also said he’d consider ending the electric vehicle tax credit.