Category: Social media

Talk Host Gets Boot in Colo: It May Not Be Censorship, but It’s Still a Tragedy
Our media should not be such hermetically sealed, tribalistic bubbles as to not tolerate the sort of questioning of Donald Trump that Craig Silverman was engaged in.

Facebook Finally Does The Right Thing; This Time Twitter Lets Us Down
Even if Dorsey and his Twitter colleagues don’t see the benefit just in being a good corporate citizen, there are other savvy reasons to protect the whistleblower.

If ‘Pierre Delecto’ Harms Mitt Romney’s Career, the Voters are Fools
If the voters of Utah were to punish Romney in any way for this Pierre Delecto business, they are fools.

Let’s Talk About The 7th Maryland Congressional District
Let’s talk about Maryland’s 7th Congressional District, the subject of Trump’s latest weird tweetstorm, and aside from reminding Donald Trump that he actually is the president of Maryland’s 7th Congressional District, let’s look at it just from a “facts” standpoint first.

Jennifer Granholm to Mia Love: More Republicans Like You Should Come out and Tell Trump, ‘Enough Is Enough’
The first black female Republican elected to Congress took Donald Trump to task for his ongoing string of racist tweets attacking non-white Democratic figures.

‘He’s Just a Racist Who Uses Social Media’
With his attacks on Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Cummings Baltimore district, Donald Trump is merely doubling down on his public racism.

Meghan McCain: ‘My Message to George Conway Is Start at Home’
Meghan McCain jumped into the politically fraught Conway marriage in the midst of the controversy over Trump's racist Tweets.

‘You Can’t Find Them With a Searchlight’: Few Republicans Condemn Trump’s Racist Tweets
After two days of tweets roundly condemned as xenophobic and racist, few Republicans or conservatives have spoken out against Donald Trump's behavior.

Border Patrol Condemns Secret Facebook Group, but Reveals Few Specifics
The agency won’t say how many employees have been disciplined or warned in the ongoing scandal over offensive social media posts.

Border Patrol Official Circulates Article That Deems Our Reporting on Secret Facebook Group a Threat
A senior Border Patrol official, who directs a key intelligence-gathering center, on Thursday circulated an inflammatory opinion article that blasted ProPublica’s reporting on a secret Facebook group for current and former agents and described the news organization as a threat to the agency and its members.