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Topic: 2026-midterms

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Monday, 7/20, 02:38 AM

Campaigns have started trying to shape what chatbots say about them

  • Voters are asking AI assistants who to vote for, and political operations have noticed.
  • The tactics borrow from search engine optimization, the evidence on what works is thin, and the deciding factor may be something mundane: which news organizations let AI crawlers read them.

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