Political Fundraising Emails Must Be Destroyed

The dark arts are hurting all of us.

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In 2014, Nieman Lab wrote a profile about me which was titled “mastering the dark arts.” It was about what it sounds like: me finding ways of manipulating social media to boost the readership of Mother Jones.

Darks Arts are fun. It’s a fun thing to do. You find some flaw in the system, some loophole, and then you exploit it. Y…