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I started Digital Politics as a way to understand how the worlds of tech and politics were colliding like never before. The newsletter is my attempt to unpack what is going on with digital policymaking in a way that is both nonpartisan and opinionated.

Readers come to Digital Politics for impartial analysis free from bias. I value that relationship, and use it as my North Star in how I write the newsletter each week. You take time in your busy schedules to read what I write. Nothing will, or should, take away from that trust.

That's why I wanted to lay down how Digital Politics approaches any form of advertising that appears in the newsletter. That is primarily inserted "sponsored content" that may be displayed within the weekly dispatches.

Here are my guiding rules that are non-negotiable:

1) No sponsor will be told what appears in the newsletter ahead of publication.

2) No sponsor will be able to dictate what appears (or doesn't appear) in the newsletter.

3) All "sponsored content" (in the form of inserts in the newsletter) will be vetted by Digital Politics before publication to meet my ethical standards.

4) Digital Politics makes no judgement on what appears in these "sponsor content" inserts beyond ensuring that whatever text complies with my ethical standards. (For more on my approach, read chapter 6 here.)

5) Final decisions of what "sponsored content" appears in the newsletter will be made by Digital Politics alone.

I understand seeing advertising in the newsletter may not be what you want to see. I get it. If you have any questions, please reach out to me on digitalpolitics@protonmail.com and I'd be happy to talk about how I approach these relationships.

Let's get started.