Tag: Facebook

After President Trump tweeted that he has been "tougher" on Russia than his predecessor, the media was incredulous. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: Trump and Obama: Who’s really tougher on Russia?

Byron York · February 27, 2018 12:06 am

Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, said on NBC's "Meet The Press" Sunday that Congress should take up a bill to regulate social networks and Internet video platforms more like TV stations and print outlets. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Amy Klobuchar wants tech companies to be fined for not removing bots fast enough

Kyle Feldscher · February 25, 2018 5:37 pm

The Oculus virtual reality game "Bullet Train" features a simulation of "an agent undergoing an infiltration simulation set inside a modern train station" and facing off against "resistance forces." (screenshot)

Facebook pulls virtual reality shooting game at CPAC

Daniel Chaitin · February 24, 2018 2:52 am

Fact Check: Were All Russian Facebook Ads Purchased Only After the Election?

Holmes Lybrand · February 23, 2018 8:12 pm

Scott Pappalardo filmed himself sawing his AR-15 in half, unintentionally creating a weapon that is less safe than the original gun. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Beltway Confidential

Please don’t do this to your gun

Angela Morabito · February 22, 2018 5:24 pm

It's really remarkable that CNN editors didn't consider that outing a private citizen as an unwitting dupe of Russian interference would put an enormous target on that private citizen's chest. (CNN)

Beltway Confidential

CNN gets way out of line by hunting down private pro-Trump citizen over Russian interference

Becket Adams · February 21, 2018 9:03 pm

Washington Secrets

Gen Z abandons old media, choose Instagram, YouTube, Facebook

Paul Bedard · February 20, 2018 8:52 pm

U.S. Customs and Border Protection supervisor Erik Gordon, left, helps passenger Ronan Pabhye navigate one of the new facial recognition kiosks at a United Airlines gate before boarding a flight to Tokyo on July 12, 2017, at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston. The Trump administration intends to require that American citizens boarding international flights submit to face scans, something Congress has not explicitly approved and privacy advocates consider an ill-advised step toward a surveillance state. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Is it time to crack down on facial recognition?

Steven Nelson · February 20, 2018 5:01 am

On Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said, "Americans are the victims of what Russia did. Not Republicans, not Democrats. All of us are victims." (screenshot)

National Security

Trey Gowdy: Russia will continue to attack US elections until Americans unite

Kyle Feldscher · February 18, 2018 4:45 pm

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg created one of the world's largest and most important platforms for spreading news and information, even when it's fake. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Mark Zuckerberg colludes with Russia

Washington Examiner · February 16, 2018 9:54 pm

While wealthy with plenty of billionaires, Silicon Valley shouldn't ignore this exit. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Beltway Confidential

Peter Thiel unfriends Silicon Valley

Philip Wegmann · February 16, 2018 4:55 pm

One of the ways in which Facebook plans to change the way users engage news and political content is establishing a news section to its watch tab, which is now currently reserved for original videos.

Beltway Confidential

Facebook’s dangerous slippery slope with politics and news

Siraj Hashmi · February 13, 2018 1:18 pm