Tag: Social Media

Shot of a fashionable young woman using her cellphone while walking through the city.

Beltway Confidential

Twitter conversations have improved, but there’s a better way to talk to each other

Madeline Fry Schultz · September 19, 2019 5:38 pm

UPDATED: Women’s March votes out ‘proud anti-Zionist’ board member

Mike Brest · September 19, 2019 9:03 am

A display from The Satanic Temple-Chicago has been placed in the Statehouse rotunda at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. It joins the Nativity scene to mark the Christmas season and the Menorah to mark Hanukkah.

Al Sharpton tweets out wrong photo to remember ‘Cookie Roberts’

John Gage · September 18, 2019 7:30 pm

‘Dystopic society’: Facebook moderators left psychologically teetering after viewing graphic material daily

Tim Pearce · September 17, 2019 11:33 pm

FILE - In this July 22, 2019 file photo, Grace Capati looks at a UFO display outside of the Little A'Le'Inn, in Rachel, Nev., the closest town to Area 51. The originator of the "Storm Area 51" internet hoax is citing concerns about organization and funding for withdrawing from an event called "Alienstock" scheduled next week in the remote Nevada desert. Matty Roberts said in interviews Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019 in Las Vegas that he was worried events hosted by innkeeper Connie West in the tiny town of Rachel might not succeed. West told The Associated Press she has 22 musical and comedic acts booked and her Sept. 19-21 festival at the Little A'Le'Inn will go on.

National Security

Air Force leadership implores public not to storm Area 51

Russ Read · September 17, 2019 11:06 pm

Corey Lewandowski.

Beltway Confidential

House Democrats fully earned and deserve Corey Lewandowski’s trolling

Tiana Lowe Doescher · September 17, 2019 7:14 pm

Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice nominee for U.S. President Donald Trump, listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Sept. 7, 2018. Kavanaugh yesterday steered clear of trouble in a marathon day before a Senate panel, refusing to say whether he would overturn the constitutional right to abortion or disqualify himself from any case directly involving Trump.

‘Oopsies’: New York Times excoriated for omitting bombshell Kavanaugh details

Mike Brest · September 16, 2019 2:59 pm

President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

New York Times deletes tweet stating that Brett Kavanaugh thrust his penis in face of Yale student

Carlin Becker · September 15, 2019 3:18 am

Union members from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

SEIU accused of union-busting by its own staff

Sean Higgins · September 13, 2019 6:23 pm

Democratic presidential candidate entrepreneur Andrew Yang speaks Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC at Texas Southern University in Houston.

Yang leads on new Twitter follows during Thursday night debate

Ellie Bufkin · September 13, 2019 11:56 am

‘Terrorists First, America Second’: Liz Cheney tears into Rand Paul over foreign policy

John Gage · September 12, 2019 3:14 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting, in Jerusalem, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020.

Facebook sanctions Netanyahu page over ‘hate speech’ policy

Zach Halaschak · September 12, 2019 8:42 am