by Jim Heath | Jun 29, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, Social Media
Reddit, one of the largest social networking and message board websites, today banned its biggest community devoted to President Trump as part of an overhaul of its hate speech policies. The community or “subreddit,” called “The_Donald,” is home to more than 790,000...
by Jim Heath | Jun 24, 2020 | Headlines, Social Media
Mark Zuckerberg is hiding out at his sprawling $100 million estate in Hawaii amid mounting turmoil at Facebook as a growing list of prominent brands are boycotting the social media network over its perceived failure to crack down on hate speech and incitements to...
by Jim Heath | Jun 23, 2020 | 2020, Business, Headlines, Social Media
Twitter will make Election Day a paid holiday for its U.S. employees, the company announced today. The company added that any employees who do not have time outside of working hours to vote in their country will be compensated for the time it takes to vote. All...
by Jim Heath | Jun 22, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, Social Media, Trump
Donald Trump’s campaign has privately admitted that as many as 300,000 of the people who signed up for Saturday’s rally in Tulsa were online tricksters as the his fury mounts over the lack of attendance. Trump and his campaign manager Brad Parscale bragged...
by Jim Heath | Jun 18, 2020 | Headlines, Social Media, Trump
Twitter tonight took the rare step of appending a warning label to one of President Trump’s tweets after the company determined it violated its policies on manipulated media. Trump tweeted a doctored version of a popular video that went viral in 2019, which showed a...
by Jim Heath | Jun 8, 2020 | Entertainment, Social Media, Trump
In his latest song parody, comedian Randy Rainbow channeled Judy Garland to mock Donald Trump’s response to the nationwide George Floyd protests, and specifically the report that he hid in a bunker to protect himself from protesters. On May 29, as protests inspired by...
