Facebook’s come in for plenty of criticism since Election Day, in part for its role in helping fake election news stories and conspiracy theories spread online in the months before Trump’s victory. But did the vast social network help...
New Epolitics.com contributor Ben Kaplan is the founder and CEO of PR Hacker. Read more on his blog. Becoming The First Viral President: How Trump Won The Race To The White House When Donald Trump sent a thunderbolt to the Democratic and Republican...
A year ago, we covered the debut of the Clinton campaign’s Twitter posse. Now that we’re in debate season, we get to watch her rally the troops. Pre-debate, her team sends out preparatory messages, like this one that arrived today...
Watch those hands, Robbie! Via Shaun Dakin, important news about Trump’s and Clinton’s social-media support around the last presidential debate: A University of Oxford study indicates [Trump] may have had some help in the form of pro...
Today’s excellent-as-always Daily 202 includes an illustration of how a single influential person can shift the online discussion: “The chart below [Ed. note: reprinted above] shows the spike in mentions of a “rigged”...
Great observation from Mark Hmmer, via The Daily 202: The genius of the Trump Clinton Twitter war of 2016 is that it consumes Trump's every waking minute & Clinton doesn't know it's happening. — Mark Hammer (@markhammer1987)...
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton don’t agree on much: perhaps the only things they have in common besides being classified as Homo sapiens are their personal ambition and a profound aversion to having the press mucking around in their business...
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As reported in Gizmodo yesterday: Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending†news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project...
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