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Trump's distraction tactic of lashing out on Twitter isn't working

Rob Crilly · May 15, 2020 3:00 am

Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, beside Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, right, and renderings of a park in being constructed in Boston in honor of Martin Richard, the youngest victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.

Reporter tells Biden internet refers to him as ‘Dementia Joe’ and ‘Creepy Joe’

Anthony Leonardi · May 13, 2020 7:50 pm

Justin Amash, Donald Trump, and Rand Paul

Beltway Confidential

Critics freak out over Rand Paul’s reasonable call to reopen schools

Brad Polumbo · May 12, 2020 6:19 pm

Twitter adding warning labels to possible coronavirus misinformation to ‘make it easier to find facts’

Mica Soellner · May 11, 2020 8:59 pm

President Trump asks whether NBC will "terminate" "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough "based on the 'unsolved mystery' that took place in Florida years ago?" Trump appeared to be referencing the death of Lori Klausutis, who was found dead in Scarborough's district office in Okaloosa County, Fla., in July 2001. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Joe Scarborough apologizes to Pence and Ted Cruz after heated Twitter exchange

Mica Soellner · May 11, 2020 5:54 pm

Facebook tells employees they can work from home until 2021 because of the coronavirus

Madison Dibble · May 8, 2020 6:14 pm

Healthcare workers urge tech companies to step up fight against misinformation about the coronavirus

Mica Soellner · May 8, 2020 6:00 pm

‘What have you done for the country lately?’: Mnuchin’s response to Axl Rose sends Twitter into frenzy

Dominick Mastrangelo · May 7, 2020 2:10 pm

David Reinert holding a Q sign waits in line with others to enter a campaign rally with President Donald Trump Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., Thursday, August 2, 2018 in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Facebook removes accounts associated with QAnon conspiracy theory

Zach Halaschak · May 5, 2020 11:52 pm

Far-right commentator and political activist Candace Owens, speaks at the Conservative political Action Conference, at the Gaylord Hotel in Oxen Hill Maryland, Friday, February 29, 2019.

UPDATED: ‘Governor-turned-dictator’: Candace Owens suspended from Twitter for encouraging Michiganders to go to work

Mike Brest, Anthony Leonardi · May 2, 2020 6:29 pm

Jair Bolsonaro, presidential candidate with the Social Liberal Party, waves after voting in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Bolsonaro deletes social media post saying WHO encourages children to be gay and masturbate

Anthony Leonardi · May 1, 2020 12:32 am

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., walks through the Hall of Columns at the Capitol as House Democratic chairs gather for a meeting with Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., in Washington, Wednesday, March 27, 2019.

Adam Schiff urges tech companies to combat spread of misinformation during pandemic

Mica Soellner · April 30, 2020 6:15 pm