According to Trump’s campaign, “3.4 million Facebook users in the US generated 6.4 million interactions regarding the launch of his campaign, the highest by far, among all 2016 GOP candidates.”
On Monday, California Assemblyman Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita) became the first member of the GOP to vote for the state budget in years–because he accidentally voted for it while he was dallying with Facebook, where he opposed it, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
After top tech talent from Silicon Valley helped rescue President Obama’s disastrous healthcare website launch, he decided that there was much more the brightest in Silicon Valley could do for the federal government. According to an interview with Fast Company, the President has been personally recruiting top talent from the likes of Google and Facebook to build next-generation government services.
A Belgian consumer protection agency launched a lawsuit against Facebook for alleged violations of Belgian and European Union laws and regulations.
New York Times columnist Jim Stewart reacted to the report that Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is stepping down from his position July 1 and appointing Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder and former chief, as the interim CEO while they look for a permanent replacement on CNBC’s “Squawk on
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson continues to gain supporters.
Facebook has begun the arduous work of shutting down Arabic-language pages created for selling ancient Syrian artifacts ransacked from areas controlled by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS). The sale of priceless antiques has become a cornerstone of the ISIS economy, as demand skyrockets for the contents of looted museums, temples, and ruins.
Vocativ makes the interesting, and chilling, point that Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeini—the Ayatollah, the guy Mickey Mouse was flipping off in all those seventies T-shirts—is doing very well on social media for a guy who died when computers were still bigger than dishwashers.
On Tuesday, President of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s lobbyist group Fwd.US, Todd Schulte, said the United States needs to allow more “unskilled” immigrants into the workforce and falsely suggested that “for every H1B visa that is granted, nearly two jobs are created for native-born Americans.”
Russian Internet users, apparently manipulated by the Kremlin, began conspicuously surfacing online after Russia invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea. These paid “trolls” work all day to flood online articles and social media with praises towards Russian President Vladimir Putin and condemnation of the West.
A Belgian security officer—apparently the equivalent of a neighborhood watch patrolman—identified only as “Mohammed N.,” launched a vicious anti-Semitic tirade on Facebook last Friday. “The word Jew itself is dirty,” he wrote. “If I were in Israel, frankly, I would do to the Jews what they do with the Palestinians — slaughter each and every one of them.”
Following recent media attention showcasing Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is adding to his popularity and drawing large crowds during his travels through Iowa, a new study reveals he’s also the only presidential candidate – either Republican or Democrat – to drastically increase his internet presence across multiple media platforms.
The same day that former Olympian Bruce Jenner made his world debut as “Caitlyn,” a group of drag queens from San Francisco–decked out in dresses, wigs and sparkling makeup–made their way to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park to protest against the tech giant’s rule requiring users to prove their true identities.
“A 22-year-old Arab citizen of Israel and resident of Umm al-Fahm, located in the ‘triangle’ region of northern Israel which is home to over 300,000 Arab citizens, was indicted on Thursday for supporting the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization,” reports Israel National News. “The indictment was submitted against Jamal Suleiman Abu Ra’ad, who was found thanks to an unusual investigative method – looking at his Facebook page.”
Socialist politicians in Venezuela are proposing a project that would force all Venezuelans to use an internet emanating from a single government-controlled server, as a way to prevent citizens from using Google, Twitter, and other social media to access sites that publish material unfavorable to the government.
The Kremlin will stop at nothing to fully control all forms of media in Russia. The latest step included threats to Google, Facebook, and Twitter from Russia’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor.
Carly Fiorina—the only female GOP presidential candidate—fired back after Fox News announced its criteria for candidates in the upcoming presidential debate.
The grieving process has inspired some of the most beautiful and tragic pieces of modern music, and artists have built entire careers around ballads of longing and loss. Some of those artists, like John Mayer, Elvis Presley, and John Lennon
When someone has a skewed sense of their body, experts say she suffers from a dysmorphic disorder.
Buying AOL, Inc. was a deal Verizon had to make, given that Verizon’s bundled telephone, Internet and pay-TV services seem headed toward serious decline.
The BBC weighs in the contestants in a heavyweight social-media boxing match between the “e-Muftis” of Jordan and Internet-savvy Islamist radicals: “In one corner, there’s the religious establishment of a global faith – complete with 1,400 years of collected learning. In the other, there is the self-styled Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) and its daily dose of propaganda videos flooding the Internet. Have traditional clerics got what it takes to be heard in this digital culture war?”
Facebook Mobile is combining its lucrative app install ads with linking to location, conversation, and movement, so a specific “in-app purchase page” opens as an app download, according to a review by TechCrunch. The result is an extremely powerful tool for direct marketers to increase monetization of products and services on mobile.
Nauru’s opposition and refugee advocates have slammed a government ban on Facebook, calling the move an act of “dictatorship”.
On Tuesday, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg finally made a public appearance, four days after the mysterious death of her husband David Goldberg in Mexico.
For many, the math simply doesn’t add up. And with newly-acquired and conflicting information about SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg’s death, the story doesn’t either. The mystery has deepened: Waiting nearly a day to announce his passing. Waiting three days to report the
Three days after news of Survey Monkey CEO Dave Goldberg’s mysterious death, it has been reported that Friday he died while exercising at the gym of a private resort in Mexico.
Before he throws his hat in the ring tomorrow, Dr. Ben Carson is sharing photos of children and young supporters calling for him to enter the presidential race on his Facebook page.
Dave Goldberg, the CEO of SurveyMonkey and husband of Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, died suddenly on Friday evening, according to a Facebook post by his brother Robert. Goldberg passed away while on vacation with his family. The cause of death was not disclosed.
The sudden death of Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Goldberg, SurveyMonkey CEO and husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, rocked the tech world this weekend.
Much changed in the story of a lost kayaker between April 19 and the 30th, when discovery of a diary may have factored into his fiancée going from attempted rescuer to accused murderer, despite a still-missing body. Angelika Graswald, 35,
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has begun establishing roots in Tunisia to add territory to their caliphate in the Middle East. It appears they already possess admirers in the country, which is a hotspot for international tourists.
Sharmila Seyyid, a Muslim woman journalist and human rights activist from Sri Lanka, received so much backlash from a comment in a BBC appearance that she left her home country. She did not receive a warm welcome in India, which forced her into hiding. Now outlets are pressuring both countries to protect Seyyid.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, intent on making the telephone obsolete, stated Wednesday that 10% of global mobile Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) occurs through Facebook Messenger. He added, according to TechCrunch, that because mobile VOIP’s audio has superior audio to that of traditional phone calls, growth “is going to continue very quickly.”
Now that Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) have officially launched their presidential campaigns, the Democratic Party is gearing up its propaganda machine to attack the Republican contenders. But a series of Facebook images they posted this week has many scratching their heads, wondering why the Democrats would use what seem to be Republican talking points in their messages.
Last week, legendary former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George P. Shultz wrote a scathing Wall Street Journal op-ed critical of the Obama Administration’s nuclear dealmaking with Iran. The Obama State Department has responded, not with criticisms of the detailed argument in the piece, but by dismissing it as “a lot of big words and big thoughts.”
Last week, terrorists from a Marxist gang in Turkey called the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party–Front took prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz hostage in an Istanbul courthouse and shot him dead. In response to a widely-circulated photograph of Kiraz shortly before his death, the Turkish government banned social media giants Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper has granted a Brooklyn woman approval to serve her husband divorce papers over Facebook.
A Turkish court threatened Google with a nationwide ban should the popular search engine fails to comply with its ruling against the publication of images showing a kidnapped prosecutor slain by a Marxist terror group last week.
Sometimes you run into a story so full of heartless evil that it’s a struggle to capture the darkness in a headline. Sometimes you read a story that just gets worse with every passing word. The murder of Shirley Souza in Brazil is such a story.
Singapore authorities arrested 17-year-old YouTube blogger Amos Yee after he debuted an eight-minute video that criticized the late founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
