Facebook removed four separate networks for violating its policies against foreign interference and coordinated inauthentic behavior, including one that originated in the U.S. and was tied to conservative political consultant Roger Stone, who worked on the 2016 campaign for President Donald Trump in its early stages. Stone was convicted on seven counts in February–including witness…
Most Americans don’t trust Covid-19 information from President Donald Trump and his administration, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. Of the over 9,500 people surveyed, 29% said the White House gets facts right “some of the time” and 36% said it got them right “hardly ever.” But nearly 67% of Americans…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking a page out of the Twitter handbook, revealing during a Facebook Live video Friday afternoon that the social network will begin labeling content from elected officials that it deems newsworthy, but that would otherwise violate its policies. Zuckerberg explained in a separate post that this occurs “a handful of…
Days after TikTok users said they fueled lower-than-expected turnout at President Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla., they have a new target: Trump’s online store. A new series of videos are circulating on the platform asking consumers to fill their carts with Trump merchandise–like the $75 Keep America Great ugly Christmas sweater or the $30…
Twitter is making national election voting days paid days off for its workforce around the world. Senior communications manager Nick Pacilio said teams responsible for functions related to elections, such as security, will be on hand during elections, adding that the previous policy was to give employees two hours off of paid time to go…
It’s a deft marketer that can navigate the political fray these days, especially on a hot-button topic like face masks. Vistaprint aims to do just that with a campaign called, “This is not a mask.” The spot, which launched over the weekend, shows kids playing outdoors and adults visiting their local haunts. They’re all wearing…
Twitter labeled one of President Donald Trump’s tweets as “manipulated media” on Thursday evening, two hours after he posted it. The offending tweet featured a doctored video of a Black child chasing a white child with the caption “Terrified toddler runs from racist baby.” It was edited with a CNN logo and a fake chyron…
Facebook took unprecedented action against the reelection campaign for President Donald Trump, removing multiple advertisements that used Nazi iconography that warned against “dangerous mobs of far-left groups.” The advertisements, posted by the pages for Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Team Trump, a campaign account, used an upside-down red triangle to rail against Antifa, a…
On Facebook, you no longer have to see political ads if you don’t want to. The ability to hide political ads went in place Tuesday and will roll out to all U.S. users of Facebook and Instagram over the next few weeks, Facebook vp of product management and social impact Naomi Gleit announced in a…
Reddit users want the site to do more to root out racism and hate speech on the platform. More than 200 communities on the site signed an open letter today addressed to CEO Steve Huffman, urging him to take on a series of reforms they believe will help cut down the behavior. The letter, which…
This week, leaked audio files of LinkedIn general counsel Blake Lawit made the rounds, in which he addressed how the professional network would handle content from President Donald Trump and other elected officials in cases where it could spur violence or contains misinformation. Today, LinkedIn confirmed the authenticity of the audio, obtained by Patrick Coffee…
Twitter removed a video tweeted by two of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign accounts for copyright infringement Thursday, leading the president to once again accuse the social platform of censoring him. As first reported by Politico, the video was a Trump-narrated tribute to George Floyd, the Black man killed by Minneapolis police officers last week whose…
Facebook will start rolling out labels for state-controlled media outlets ahead of this year’s U.S. elections, an initiative the company first announced in October. “We’re providing greater transparency into these publishers because they combine the influence of a media organization with the strategic backing of a state, and we believe people should know if the…
Twitter and Facebook executives have been at opposite ends of a crucial debate over the acceptability of President Donald Trump’s posts. Their interpretations of the same message call into question how other social media platforms will consider the president’s posts moving forward and what it means for private users with accounts on those websites, particularly…
Snapchat will no longer promote President Donald Trump’s account on its Discovery channel following statements he made off the platform this weekend, the company said today. “We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice by giving them free promotion on Discover,” a Snapchat spokesperson confirmed to Adweek. “Racial violence and injustice have…
As civil unrest was percolating last week, President Donald Trump posted a tweet that escalated both the level of national tension and the fraying relationship between the president and his preferred platform, Twitter. Twitter had already taken the unprecedented step of adding fact-checking information around two of Trump’s earlier tweets about mail-in voting, and the…
Some of 2020’s most viral political ads have come from a liberal organization called MeidasTouch, and if you’d never heard of the group before the past few weeks, there’s a good reason: they didn’t exist yet. Created in quarantine by three brothers originally from Long Island, MeidasTouch is technically a liberal PAC but in practice…
Tensions are escalating inside Facebook over the social platform’s laissez-faire approach to the president’s posts. While Twitter took an active approach to Donald Trump’s account last week–including flagging a tweet that encouraged shooting unarmed protesters–Facebook chose to interpret Trump’s message differently and has not modified the same post. Some Facebook employees are upset over the…
While one social network took a stand against potentially misleading information and statements glorifying violence posted by President Donald Trump, another held firm to its policy of inaction, despite pressure from both inside and outside of the company. The first social network is Twitter, which labeled two tweets by Trump Tuesday regarding mail-in ballots with…
As an uprising ravaged Minneapolis, Minn., in the aftermath of the police killing of a black man, George Floyd, the president tweeted (at 12:53 a.m.): I can’t stand back & watch this happen to a great American City, Minneapolis. A total lack of leadership. Either the very weak Radical Left Mayor, Jacob Frey, get his…
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