Recent elections in the US and the UK have yielded more questions than answers about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to messages and tactics...
Jonathan Tanner
Jonathan Tanner is a consultant working with organisations to navigate digital society. His podcast Government Vs The Robots explores how politics will affect technology in the future. His clients have included global think tank the Overseas Development Institute, online ad transparency campaigners Who Targets Me, cross-party political movement More United, creative communicators Unfold Stories, and the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Before all that, he was Communications Director at Crown Agents.
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