Tag: Social Media

Private entities don't care about your First Amendment rights. (@DCExaminer/Twitter)

Beltway Confidential

What the lady who flipped off President Trump can teach the Left and the Right

Philip Wegmann · November 6, 2017 10:05 pm

Former FBI Director James Comey had been using @FormerBU and Reinhold Niebuhr's name as his alias on Twitter. On Monday he announced his official Twitter handle is @Comey.

James Comey outs himself on Twitter, announces new handle

Anna Giaritelli · November 6, 2017 3:46 pm

Woman fired from her job after flipping off Trump’s motorcade

Caitlin Yilek · November 6, 2017 2:55 pm

Beltway Confidential

Russian Facebook propaganda is all bark, no bite

Kevin Glass · November 6, 2017 2:05 pm

EDITORIAL: Social Media Distortion

The Editors · November 6, 2017 9:57 am

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, file photo, from left, Facebook's General Counsel Colin Stretch, Twitter's Acting General Counsel Sean Edgett, and Google's Senior Vice President and General Counsel Kent Walker, are sworn in for a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russian election activity and technology, on Capitol Hill in Washington. There were signs, some say telltale signs, of Russians using social media to meddle in the U.S. elections long before tech companies wised up to it. Could Facebook, Google and Twitter have caught the abuse earlier? (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

National Security

Major investor in Facebook and Twitter had ties to Russian government-owned firms: Report

Naomi Lim · November 5, 2017 11:15 pm

Confab: Nothing But the Best?

TWS Podcast · November 4, 2017 7:34 pm

Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates delivers an address at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Sally Yates to Trump: Justice Department ‘not a tool’ to chase after Democrats

Daniel Chaitin · November 4, 2017 2:09 pm

Facebook ads linked to a Russian effort to disrupt the American political process were displayed as Google's senior vice president and general counsel, Facebook's general counsel, and Twitter's acting general counsel testified during House Intelligence Committee hearings on Capitol Hill this week. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Beltway Confidential

Hey, Congress: National security is your job, not the job of social media companies

Charles Sauer · November 3, 2017 9:09 pm

President Trump promised an investigation into reports that Twitter was 'shadow-banning' conservative lawmakers. The company denied the claims.

Twitter implements new ‘safeguards’ after employee deactivated Trump’s account

Katie Leach · November 3, 2017 7:28 pm

When Trump complains about law enforcement on Twitter, it isn't a sign of strength, but of weakness. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s Twitter tantrum on FBI shows American institutions are strong

Philip Klein · November 3, 2017 5:56 pm

The president's personal Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, was down for 11 minutes Thursday night, sparking a social media uproar. (Screengrab)

Twitter blames outgoing customer support employee for briefly deactivating Trump’s account

Ariella Phillips · November 3, 2017 12:27 am