X - Page 95

The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman compared President Trump’s blocking individuals on Twitter to Iran’s blocking the entire Internet.

President Donald Trump taunted Kim Jong-un on Tuesday, tweeting that his own nuclear button was “much bigger,” more powerful, and fully functional.

U.S. Bancorp said that they will distribute $1,000 bonuses and raise their minimum wage thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it will use Facebook and Twitter to communicate directly with Iranians who are protesting against the Islamic regime in favor of democracy and freedom, hours after Iran’s repressive government shut off access to Instagram and Telegram in an attempt to stifle the uprising.

A prominent figure in the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has run afoul of Germany’s draconian new censorship law, as officials crack down on whatever they deem to be “hate speech.”

As protests over Iran’s faltering economy rapidly spread across the country, a channel on a mobile messaging app run by an exiled journalist helped fan the passions of some of those who took to the street.

“As our Country rapidly grows stronger and smarter, I want to wish all of my friends, supporters, enemies, haters, and even the very dishonest Fake News Media, a Happy and Healthy New Year,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “2018 will be a great year for America!”

Echelon Insights, a beltway research firm run by two former Republican election consultants, published an in-depth data analysis of the news stories different groups of Americans focused their attentions on in 2017.

President Trump has not let the tedious gap between Christmas and New Year go to waste. As usual, he has been trolling his enemies like a boss.

Free speech remained in a perilous state in 2017, as Big Tech became increasingly comfortable with censorship, applying inscrutable rules through enigmatic algorithms that looked an awful lot like old-fashioned political bias to outside observers.

A poll revealed that Trump’s approval matches Obama’s polling in his first year “despite massive negative Trump coverage & Russia hoax!”

It has been a year of setbacks for big tech, with Google, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, among other tech companies, all finding themselves facing new political threats from without and within. Tech companies’ favorite candidate lost the election, they were hauled before congress, and both left and right-wing media are out to get them.

George Ciccariello-Maher has resigned from his post at Drexel University, claiming he was the target of a year-long harassment campaign over several of his controversial tweets. Ciccariello-Maher, known best for his “All I want for Christmas is White Genocide” tweet, which

Sen. Elizabeth Warren drew a host of reactions — not all of them positive — when she responded on Twitter to President Donald Trump’s sarcastic “global warming” tweet.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) will likely raise a record $130 million in 2017, beating any previous RNC off-year fundraising records, reports say.

Former Hillary Clinton campaign Chair John Podesta had his vacation practically ruined in July when President Trump tweeted about him, according to a new report published this week.

Israel and the United States have secretly signed a far-reaching joint memorandum of understanding providing for full cooperation to deal with Iran’s nuclear drive, its missile programs and its other threatening activities, an Israeli TV report said.

American unemployment benefits claims remain at a 17-year record low, according to new data revealed by the U.S. Department of Labor.

The Library of Congress is set to stop archiving all Twitter posts at the end of the month.

TEL AVIV — The party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has posted an image on social media comparing U.S. President Donald Trump to Hitler, a low point in its smear campaign against the United States following Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

“WOW,” Trump wrote, pointing to the Fox & Friends report. “Dossier is bogus. Clinton Campaign, DNC funded Dossier. FBI CANNOT (after all of this time) VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED.”

Left-wing comedian Rosie O’Donnell lashed out at House Speaker Paul Ryan Monday, telling him he’s going “straight to hell” after presiding over the passage of the GOP tax cut bill.

As the end of the year draws near and conservatives continue to celebrate just how much winning has occurred since Donald Trump’s election, it’s time to look back on some of the president’s best tweets of 2017.

2017 was full of meltdowns from overwhelmingly left-wing, anti-Trump verified Twitter users. Here were some of the highlights of the year.

Elon Musk tweeted his personal cell phone number this week to 16.7 million followers with the message, “Hey, give me a call.”

Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Adviser for former President Obama, wrote on Twitter that he was looking forward to the obituaries of prominent Republicans after a photo surfaced of them flashing a thumbs up with President Donald Trump.

“And alongside the obits for Ryan, McConnell, and Pence,” Rhodes added.

Julia Carrie Wong writes at The Guardian that the election of Donald Trump has shocked the tech industry into taking a more critical look at their effect on the world:

Via Twitter, former comedienne Rosie O’Donnell offered illegal bribes to Senators in exchange for ‘No’ vote on tax bill.

Twitter’s Vice President of Public Policy and Communications recently stated in an interview that it was “no longer possible to stand up for all speech.”

Twitter is purging swathes of conservative and alt-right users because of “violent extremism.” But violent leftists remain on the platform.

Just 105 Russia-linked Twitter accounts posted about Brexit in the run-up to the referendum on membership of the European Union (EU), researchers at Oxford University have found.

Twitter has begun its “purge” of right-wing accounts and has terminated the account of far-right Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen who was retweeted three times by President Donald Trump last month.

Donald Trump Jr. posted an Instagram photo of himself with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) holding a cookie with a distorted image of former President Barack Obama’s face on it, and many writers are outraged.

NFL Media Vice President and Executive Editor David Eaton first cleaned, then outright deleted, his Twitter account which was full of interaction with porn stars and prostitutes.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) will oppose the Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act unless it includes an expansion of the child tax credit.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed the FCC’s “Restoring Internet Freedom Order” on Thursday, which will repeal the agency’s 2015 net neutrality regulation.