Influence and Interference: Decoding Politics and Power with Drew Biemer - Episode 46
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Welcome back to the Grey Dynamics podcast! Today we have Drew Biemer back with us again. Drew is a strategic management and communications professional with 2 decades of experience in governmental, public and civil affairs. His prior experience includes congressional and gubernatorial campaign management, legislative staffing, executive protection, geopolitical risk management, investigations, intelligence, and public information. We spoke about how dark money gets into the political process, how nation-states interfere in third-world countries' elections, targeting using social media and much more.
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We spoke about:
- 1:06 - The presidential nomination process
- 8:14 - How dark money gets into the US electoral process
- 18:22 - How corporations interfere in the US political process
- 24:43 - Interference in other countries elections
- 28:40 - Psychological micro-targeting using social media
- 36:42 - The effect TikTok could have on US and other elections
- 48:28 - Ahmed and Drew’s experience concerning elections abroad
- 53:40 - Cultural recommendations
- 59:14 - Cultural observations
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