by Jim Heath | Oct 30, 2019 | Headlines, Social Media
Twitter will no longer run any political advertising promoting candidates or particular hot-button issues, CEO Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday. The announcement comes amid ongoing controversy over rival Facebook’s decision to allow misinformation in political...
by Jim Heath | Sep 27, 2019 | Headlines, Social Media, Trump
Donald Trump paused this morning from whatever he is doing to combat his potential impeachment and delivered a surprise spelling lecture to the United States, in a tweet richly layered with mistakes and irony. After a night spent posting Sean Hannity clips and other...
by Jim Heath | Jul 9, 2019 | Headlines, Social Media, Trump
A federal appeals court ruled today that Donald Trump cannot block his critics on Twitter. The decision from the New York appeals court upholds an earlier ruling that deems the president violated the First Amendment by blocking individual users from the Twitter feed...
by Jim Heath | Jul 8, 2019 | Headlines, Social Media, Trump
President Trump has invited an anti-Semitic cartoonist to the White House for a social media summit, but left out both Facebook and Twitter. Ben Garrison, a political cartoonist affiliated with the far-right, posted the invitation on his Twitter account on Friday....
by Jim Heath | Jun 21, 2019 | Headlines, Social Media, Trump
President Trump, whose Twitter malaprops often set off a deluge of social media criticism, was targeted on today for a linguistic misfire involving the phrase “locked and loaded.” In a series of tweets this morning Trump outlined why he said he had decided to call off...
