Tag: Social Media

A survey of Senate tweets finds Democrats obsessed with President Trump.

Beltway Confidential

Twitter, Facebook, and the Hunter Biden story is an occasion to change your news habits

Jeremy Beaman · October 23, 2020 5:52 pm

Facebook gives update on FTC agreement as agency considers antitrust investigation

Tyler Van Dyke · October 23, 2020 5:13 pm

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Word of the Week: ‘Brand’

Nicholas Clairmont · October 23, 2020 3:00 am

In this June 11, 2014 photo, a man walks past a Facebook sign in an office on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. British data protection authorities said Wednesday, July 2, that it is investigating revelations that Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on its users.

Facebook starts Oversight Board for users to appeal content removal

Tyler Van Dyke · October 22, 2020 7:31 pm

This July 16, 2013 photo shows a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

Facebook ‘glitch’ temporarily redirects people to QAnon information

Tyler Van Dyke · October 21, 2020 11:35 pm

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attends a press conference at an international counterterrorism conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, July 19, 2019.

Pompeo attributes rise in online anti-Semitism to coronavirus pandemic

Nicholas Rowan · October 21, 2020 8:26 pm

New York Post stuck in ‘Twitter jail’ one week after publishing Hunter Biden laptop stories

Anthony Leonardi · October 21, 2020 7:02 pm

FILE - This April 3, 2017, file photo shows U.S. President Donald Trump's Twitter feed on a computer screen in Washington. President Donald Trump is claiming that Twitter has removed âmany peopleâ from his account. But he appears to have actually gained followers since the beginning of October.
According to the Internet Archiveâs Wayback Machine, which collects snapshots of web pages over time, Trump had 54.8 million followers on Oct. 1. He had 55.3 million as of Friday, Oct. 26, 2018.

Three in 4 voters think Big Tech has too much influence on political news people read, Washington Examiner/YouGov poll finds

W. James Antle III · October 21, 2020 2:00 pm

Beltway Confidential

Jeffrey Toobin should be liable for his big reveal, not Zoom

Shoshana Weissmann · October 20, 2020 9:12 pm

Biden overtaking Trump as kingpin of Twitter engagement, data shows

Mica Soellner · October 20, 2020 7:29 pm

Biden campaign unveils multimillion-dollar ‘Malarkey Factory’ to fight disinformation online: Report

Mica Soellner · October 19, 2020 8:08 pm

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, right, shakes hands with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the ministry in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, February 11, 2019. Pompeo is on an official visit to Hungary.

Beltway Confidential

Interview: Pompeo says Twitter blocking New York Post’s Hunter Biden story is ‘dangerous’

Salena Zito · October 19, 2020 4:00 am