Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently announced that the social media platform will no longer run political advertisements of any kind.
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‘C’est Moi’: Mitt Romney Confirms Ownership of Alternate Twitter Account
On Sunday night, Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) confirmed that he was the owner of an alternate Twitter account that had previously tweeted in his defense, according to The Hill.
Read MoreTrump Calls Romney A ‘Pompous’ ‘A**’ Over Condemnation of Ukraine Call
President Donald Trump went after Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney on Twitter Saturday morning after Romney condemned the president’s call with Ukraine’s president.
Read MoreThe Battleground State Report Talks About How Twitter Has Become the ‘Sewer of Left Wing Attack Dogs’
On Friday’s Battleground State Report with Michael Patrick Leahy and Doug Kellett – a one-hour radio show from Star News Digital Media in the early stages of national weekend syndication rollout – Leahy and Kellett discussed the mental state of the nation and how people have either succumbed to the age of unreason or outrage. Leahy did, however, give kudos to the concept of social media as it helped launch the Tea Party movement in 2009.
Read MoreCommentary: Is There Such a Thing as ‘Too Much Trump?’
The new post-Mueller media narrative is “weariness” and “exhaustion” with President Trump’s tweets, his cul de sac Sharpie controversy, his ideas about buying Greenland, his unorthodox art-of-the-deal foreign policy that resulted in a plan to talk to Taliban leaders in the United States, and his firing of arch-conservative John Bolton.
Read More‘Harmless Fun’: NYT Faces Backlash After ‘Offensive’ Tweet About Kavanaugh Allegations
The New York Times faced backlash after its opinion section tweeted “offensive” comments Saturday while promoting a piece about allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Read MoreCommentary: How Twitter Is Corrupting the History Profession
About a week ago I began scrutinizing how the New York Times’ 1619 Project relied upon the work of the controversial “New History of Capitalism” genre of historical scholarship to advance a sweeping indictment of free markets over the historical evils of slavery. The problems with this literature are many, and prominent among them is its use of shoddy statistical work by Cornell University historian Ed Baptist to grossly exaggerate the historical effect of slave-produced cotton on American economic development. Baptist’s unusual rehabilitation of the old Confederacy-linked “King Cotton” thesis is unsupported by evidence and widely rejected by economic historians. His book The Half Has Never Been Told has nonetheless acquired a vocal following among historians and journalists, including providing the basis of a feature article in the Times series on slavery.
Read More‘I Hope You Suffered’: People on the Left Celebrate David Koch’s Death
People on the left celebrated Friday following billionaire David Koch’s death after a battle with prostate cancer.
Read MoreDayton Shooter’s Sister Identified as Transgender Male on Social Media
As was widely reported, the Dayton mass shooter had a sister, Megan, who was tragically murdered by her brother along with eight other victims. Now, news has started to leak out that Megan was living as a transgender man.
Read MoreTwitter Reveals a Large State-Backed Chinese Misinformation Campaign Targeting Hong Kong
Twitter disclosed more than 900 accounts originating from within China that deliberately attempted to promote disinformation in Hong Kong as activists engage in pro-democracy demonstrations in the region.
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