News

How an obscure website became a force in America’s election information machine

washingtonpost.com · Ian Duncan and Kevin Schaul · last updated

Experts are concerned the new crop of influential AI-created sites could quietly spread errors to millions of voters.

Frustrated with hunting for information on political candidates, Ben Torres Ezrick set out to build a one-stop shop for voters.

To wrangle data on thousands of candidates, the tech veteran turned to artificial intelligence. He sent out teams of digital agents across the web to build the dossiers that populate his website, the Ballot Brief.

But Ezrick envisioned attracting an audience beyond humans: chatbots.

View full article

here today, more tomorrow

We’ve launched briefing.center with a focus on the press and media.

And we’ve added Citizen Cartwright, a daily quick-read news summary by veteran Washington journalist Linda Cartwright. We’ve also created a new voting rights knowledge center for Citizen Cartwright subscribers. (You can sign up for a dedicated morning email at citizencartwright.com.)

You can sign up here for full access to press and media and Citizen Cartwright on briefing.center.

You can use briefing.center as the center of your information management, or just one of your tools. We’re happy to discuss your information needs.

Sign up