President Donald Trump is not happy with Twitter, usually his favorite social media platform. On Tuesday night, he accused Twitter of “interfering” with the 2020 presidential election and “stifling free speech” by placing a fact-check label on two of his tweets. It’s the first label Twitter has put on one of the president’s tweets, and…
Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., introduced a bill today that would restrict microtargeting efforts on political advertisements. The Banning Microtargeted Political Ads Act would bar online platforms from targeting political ads based on users’ demographic and behavioral data, though it would still permit geographic targeting and any targeting to which users voluntarily opt in. The bill…
Believe it or not, leaders and legislators besides President Donald Trump use Twitter, too, and Pew Research Center examined usage trends by national leaders and legislators in five predominantly English-speaking countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K. and the U.S. Researchers from Pew examined more than 1.3 million tweets posted between Jan. 1 and June…
We know Joe Biden, presidential candidate. We know Joe Biden, rogue talker. But do we know Joe Biden, style icon? Well, now you can emulate Biden’s most memeable look: his aviator sunglasses. The presumptive Democratic nominee’s campaign released an augmented reality lens on Snapchat that allows users to “try on Joe’s favorite aviators.” The stunt…
Snapchat said 52% of its U.S. users between the ages of 18 and 24 will be voting for the first time in November’s presidential election, and Snap Inc. shared some data on how it impacted the midterm elections in 2018 and its potential to do the same this year. According to Democracy Works, 450,000 Snapchatters…
The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University sent a letter to Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) Wednesday urging him to stop blocking Twitter users from his @JohnCornyn account due to differing viewpoints. Cornyn’s office had not responded to a request for comment at the time of this post. The letter stops short of threatening legal…
Democratic senators have introduced legislation today that will require major airlines to offer “full cash” refunds for all tickets canceled during the Covid-19 pandemic. While it’s unclear how far the partisan bill will get, the legislation was spearheaded by Sens. Edward Markey, D-Mass., former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Chris Murphy, D-Conn.,…
Occasionally, Facebook will add a panel with election information to your News Feed, which allows you to share that you’re voting with your friends or access more information about the voting process. If you don’t want to see these posts in your feed, follow these steps. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Facebook application…
Facebook will begin providing information on the location of high-reach pages and Instagram accounts on every post they share in an effort to boost transparency measures prior to November’s presidential election in the U.S. and similar events in other countries. Facebook product manager Anita Joseph and Instagram product manager Georgina Sheedy-Collier said in a Newsroom…
Hispanic-targeted media company Univision teamed up with the Census Bureau on the “Shape Your Future. Start Here (Dale Forma a tu Futuro. Empieza Aqu?)” campaign on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube to help drive Hispanic participation in the 2020 Census. Univision senior vice president of partner solutions Luis de la Parra said the company has been…
The Democratic National Convention has been postponed by about a month in light of the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The convention, where delegates will confirm their party’s candidate for the presidential race, was originally slated to take place July 13-16. It is now scheduled to take place the week of Aug. 17, putting the DNC a…
If you can believe, it’s been less than a month since billionaire Mike Bloomberg dropped out of the presidential race after spending a record-shattering $558 million on advertising. Since then, the political world has shifted immeasurably: A vigorous Democratic primary has been usurped by nearly monolithic media attention to the coronavirus pandemic. In this brave…
President Donald Trump gets a lot of hate on Twitter, but multiple courts have ruled that he cannot block his critics. On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied Trump’s request for an en banc review of the court’s previous decision. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University sued Trump…
Democratic presidential candidate debate No. 11 took place Sunday night and, for the first time, former Vice President Joe Biden topped President Donald Trump as the most-tweeted-about politician during the event. The top-tweeted moment during Sunday night’s debate were: Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) debate their voting records on Social Security Biden commits to…
Officials with the Democratic National Convention are still planning to host the event this summer despite the coronavirus pandemic. The convention, slated to take place July 13-16, is expected to draw around 50,o00 people to Milwaukee, Wis., and officials from the city’s mayor to the DNC’s chairman have said the spectacle will go on. The…
Twitter said last month that it would begin adding warning labels to content containing synthetic and manipulated media March 5, and the label made its debut over the weekend on a tweet by White House director of social media Dan Scavino. Twitter Scavino tweeted video footage of former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate…
As the 2020 presidential race narrows and voters get closer to Election Day, Rock the Vote is also ramping up its efforts. Since its creation in the 1990s, the nonpartisan organization designed to encourage voters to get to the polls has brought on brands and celebrities to help spread its message: Regardless of who you…
Facebook is bringing its political and issue ad policies and transparency tools to 32 more countries, effective in mid-March. The social network said in a blog post that the policies and tools are being added in Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Chile, Colombia, C?te D’Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Georgia, Ghana, Guyana, Iceland, Indonesia, Japan, Kyrgyzstan,…
There’s about to be a lot more M.M.LaFleur on the campaign trail. The women’s workwear brand, founded by Sarah LaFleur, Narie Foster and Miyako Nakamura in 2011, aims to provide “a more practical, inspired wardrobe” for professional women. And this week, the brand announced that it wants to extend that mission to the women running…
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s entry into the Democratic presidential candidate debate fray Wednesday night led to two of the three most-tweeted moments. The most-tweeted moments from Las Vegas Wednesday night were: Bloomberg says of Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), “The best known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses”…
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