Influence and Interference: Decoding Politics and Power with Drew Biemer - Episode 46

02-02-2024 • 1 hr 6 mins

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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