Why do politicians still use Facebook?

IT'S MONDAY, AND THIS IS DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and you find me in Vilnius for the annual EU DisinfoLab conference. I'll also be in Brussels on Oct 8 to moderate this panel discussion on the transatlantic digital relationship (there are a few seats left if you're in town.)

— The US midterm elections on Nov. 3 explain why politicians worldwide still use Meta's Facebook and Instagram as campaign infrastructure to reach voters.

— The Brussels Effect was supposed to export the European Union's regulatory vision globally. But there's one thing to write EU-style rules. It's another to implement them.

— Electricity usage associated with artificial intelligence is expected to more than double, globally, over the next decade.

Let's get started.