The San Francisco Standard hires Elizabeth Ralph to oversee its Opinion section; Ralph is currently editor of Politico Magazine and Politico managing editor (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/sf-standard-hires-politico-me-ralph/
YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to a select group of government officials, political candidates, and journalists to fight AI impersonation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/youtube-deepfake-detection-journalists-politicians…
Trump says oil companies pledge to spend $100B in Venezuela (James Bikales/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/08/oil-companies-pledge-to-spend-100b-in-venezuela-trump-says-00718452
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p70#a260109p70
Bigots who "boycotted" the halftime show still managed to be infuriated
Trump and his MAGA allies were predictably upset that a Spanish-speaking critic of the administration was given the stage
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/poli…
Once averse to politics, Meta is now paying political creators thousands per month to post on Facebook; one liberal creator says Meta paid him $268K in January (Kyle Tharp/Chaotic Era)
https://www.chaoticera.news/p/on-facebook-it-now-pays-to-post-about-politics…
Congressional candidate who made 'no negativity' pledge sought help finding dirt on rival (Matt Friedman/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/10/congressional-candidate-made-no-negativity-pledge-after-failing-to-get-help-finding-dirt-on-rival-00771175
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p32#a260210p32
EU officials and tech executives inaugurate a €2.5B chips research hub in Belgium; ASML and Imec emphasized that the US is dependent on European chip tech (Pieter Haeck/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-is-dependent-on-european-tech-too-chip…
Poland's President Karol Nawrocki vetoes legislation meant to enforce the EU's DSA in Poland, arguing it would grant excessive powers to government officials (Wojciech Kość/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/polish-pre