Ten Most Popular Posts of 2024 (so far)

While I’m gone fishing, a look at the posts you all liked the most since January

Rather than skipping a week of the newsletter or reposting something from the archive, I thought looking back at my posts that got the most views so far this year might be fun. A few weeks ago, I reached 6,000 subscribers, and I can’t thank you enough for supporting me and reading what I put out! 

Here are ten posts with the most views:

1. 1/24/2024 - What's Different for Tech & Elections in 2024
   A look at fifteen things that have changed since 2020 regarding how online platforms approach elections and political content.

2. 2/21/2024 - Reflections on a Month in Silicon Valley
   A turning point for me in how I think about artificial intelligence, trust, safety, and the future of news.

3. 12/20/2023 - Guide to the 2024 Elections
   While technically not published in 2024, I made an exception as it is about this year. This has all you need to know about this historic year of elections. If you need a wrap-up of the ones that just finished, we have you covered here. 

   1. Bonus: I never sent this one as an email, so it doesn’t have as many views, but these takeaways from the AI and elections conference Aspen hosted in March are still relevant.

4. 2/18/2024 - What I’m Reading – 2/18/24
   I think this one is so high because people are coming back to it for the links to company election announcements for 2024.

5. 2/14/2024 - When does something become political?
   With Meta downplaying political content on its platforms and TikTok adjusting its political ad rules, more and more people are asking how these platforms define what political is. Here, I outline how we did it at Meta in 2017/2018.

6. 1/17/2024 - The Substack Dilemma: To Stay or Go?
   In January, Substack was under scrutiny for its handling of Nazi content on the platform. Many folks left it because of that. I wrote about how I was thinking about it.

7. 2/28/2024 - Everything is politics but politics is not everything
   Google’s Gemini was criticized for the results it returned when people asked for images of the Founding Fathers, among other prompts. Many thought this was a political decision by Google. I wrote about how that is not always the case.

8. 5/15/2024 - Delivering Effective Recommendations to Tech Companies
   Plenty of people and organizations have opinions about how tech companies should be governing their platforms. I write some tips on how to do so effectively. 

9. 5/8/2024 - The Meh Election
   After months of speculation that AI-generated deep fakes would destroy our information environment and all the other bad things that could happen in elections, things seemed eerily quiet. I wrote about why I thought that was.

10. 1/3/2024 - Our World in 2025
    I still agree with everything in this post. In January, I started to consider what life after 2024 might look like, and since then, I’ve expanded this thinking even further to 2029. While we continue to execute on all the things happening this year, it's time to start thinking about what we need to put in place to shape the long term.

Hope you all are having a great week!

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