The pro-Trump, conspiracy-laden Epoch Times is now the 4th-most subscribed to newspaper in America according to a new NBC report. It claims the January 6th terrorist attack and climate change are both hoaxes. While most news sites are struggling to keep the doors open, The Epoch Times’ revenue grew 685% in two years to $122 million.
Social media was very important to Donald Trump’s rise to political prominence. In 2016, Facebook did little to remove false pro-Trump articles on the site that spread like wildfire. Trump’s prolific Twitter use also continued while he was in office. But after Janaury 6th, nearly every major social media site moved to ban the former…
For a number of years, Conservatives have accused major tech companies of discrimination. Republican lawmakers frequently called the heads of major tech companies to testify in front of committees. The last straw for the GOP seemed to be when Donald Trump was batted from all of the most prominent social media sites. Florida’s Ron DeSantis,…
A report released today from the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights concluded that anti-conservative bias claims are part of a disinformation narrative and not supported by any tangible evidence. “The claim of anti-conservative animus is itself a form of disinformation: a falsehood with no reliable evidence to support it. No trustworthy large-scale…
Donald Trump thinks the U.S. government should benefit from the sale of video sharing app TikTok. The President previously said he wanted to ban the popular app. TikTok may be partially sold to Microsoft in an effort to overcome the Trump administration’s concerns about is Chinese ownership and the security implication. The President suggested that…
Matt Gaetz is calling for a criminal investigation of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly lying to Congress about social media bias against conservative. The Republican congressman has written to Attorney General William Barr accusing Zuckerberg of making false statements during congressional appearances. Gaetz claims Zuckerberg “repeatedly and categorically denied any bias against conservative speech, persons,…
Donald Trump addressed the Coronavirus death toll on Thursday by gently criticizing China for the disease. The President’s seemed more concerned with Twitter this morning. “We have just reached a very sad milestone with the coronavirus pandemic deaths reaching 100,000,” Trump tweeted. We have just reached a very sad milestone with the coronavirus pandemic deaths…
Conservative Rick Wilson has preemptively attacked Donald Trump’s impending executive order on social media. He also warned Republicans it could end badly for them. “We don’t know what the WH Counsel’s office is going to vomit out when it comes to this social media executive order, but the idea by many Trump ‘conservatives’ that this…
We can do better than sending sick people to certain death, forcing them to literally beg Emperor Trump for their lives. We can do better than taking issued student visas away because the student’s friends may have said something we don’t like. I realize there are so many other catastrophic things, like the hurricane that…
Trump thinks that his supporters (white Republicans) are a protected class who are being discriminated against on social media.
Russia has been using social media for several years to sow discord among the American electorate, and now Democrats have their own army of social media specialists to fight back. U.S. intelligence services have confirmed many times that the Russian attack on America was not done by just hacking systems, it also has been done…
On June 18, 2016, one of Facebook’s most senior executives sent out a shocking memo telling employees that there could be negative consequences of the company’s growth, including getting people killed, but these consequences were “justified.†Facebook VP Andrew “Boz†Bosworth wrote the internal memo, obtained by Buzzfeed, which had never before been seen outside…
An alarming new study from researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology seems to prove that false stories on Twitter are 70 percent more likely to be spread by human users of the social media platform than are true stories. The study looked at 126,000 stories shared by 3 million people on Twitter over an eleven…
Trump’s dangerous presidency has been no laughing matter. But every so often, he says something so ludicrous that it’s impossible not to laugh at how buffoonish he is.Â
Last week, Twitter suspended Rose McGowan’s account because, according to Twitter, she violated TOS.
This is a President of the United States who is unwilling or unable to accept criticism or responsibility for his own failures.
If the slaughter of 20 school children didn’t sway Republicans to support sane gun safety laws, why would a protest by House Democrats?
In politics it is different than just disappearing when there is hardship; the fair weather supporter becomes an enemy; something that is occurring more often than not on the left side of the political spectrum.
Shortly after it became apparent that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party had survived a close election and would retain power over the nation’s government, the New York Times released a scathing editorial criticizing Netanyahu for going ugly and utilizing racism and anti-Palestine sentiment to energize far-right Israeli voters.
Representative David Moore’s (R-Missoula) proposed yoga pants ban, failed to pass through the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Republican Congressman Aaron Shock accepted the resignation of staffer Benjamin Cole, over racist comments Cole made on social media.
Veronica Dunnachie, an Open Carry Texas activist is facing capital murder charges in the slaying of her husband and his adult daughter.
GOP staffer and former RNC media director Elizabeth Lauten lost her job after an ugly rant against the Obama daughters.
In a powerful display of true civil disobedience, hundreds of protesters stormed a St. Louis area shopping mall Friday afternoon, leading to the mall’s temporary closure on the busiest shopping day of the year.
It is a damn wretched commentary on this nation’s voting public that people around the world are better-informed about America’s economic situation, and why it is leading the world still suffering Bush-Republican economic malfeasance and ineptitude.
Former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party Todd Kincannon sent out a tweet Wednesday evening saying Michael Brown’s parents shouldn’t be upset because they are pro-choice Democrats and “they got a taxpayer-funded abortion.”
Calls for the Progressives to “break up” with the Democratic Party as an abusive partner miss the mark. The problems is actually their neglect of the party.
This is a world in which women have no right to complain about gender inequality if they don’t want to get punched, but if Ray Rice had punched another man in the elevator, he would be just as guilty
Weird stories that hit the web this past week involved robot cars, fruit flies, a flying rhinoceros and corporate tweets.
People took to Twitter and other social media lambasting the RNC for suggesting that racism ended in 1955. The RNC has tried to backtrack since.
This week Jillian York of the Electronic Frontier Foundation denounced tech companies and employers who censor or punish online ugliness. But the internet is no longer a frontier.
Women who are involved in journalism are increasingly the targets of violent sexual threats by anonymous cowards in hopes of frightening them to stop expressing their opinions.
Many officials in Torrington are facing the rape culture head-on, including attempting to deal with the cyberbullying of the 13-year-old victims.
More dirty tricks by a desperate minority: Conservatives have been trying to silence speech they don’t agree with by spam blocking en masse to get progressives suspended on Twitter.
Rape apologists, the rape crew, lawyers for the rape crew and morons (excuse the redundancy) are very upset about their character being impugned.
Because of the attention the Steubenville case has gotten, San Luis Obispo has launched a campaign to encourage the reporting of rape.
Don’t let poor judgment go viral. Oversharing on social media can be harmful, and it can have dire social, financial and legal consequences.
ALEC’s assault on democracy, though successful up until now, is over and it is entirely due to activist organizations and social media.
