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  • 2 incoming freshmen not allowed to attend NC State in the fall due to racist social media posts

    06/12/2020 4:11:30 AM PDT · by buckalfa · 60 replies
    WNCN ^ | June 11, 2020 | CBS 17 Digital Desk
    RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A string of racist social media posts courtesy of two incoming freshmen was brought to the attention of school officials at N.C. State University. Those two students will not be allowed to attend the university in the fall. Outrage on social media from university alumni and current students alike at the initial reluctance of the university to do anything about it helped bring the since-deleted social media posts to light. Screenshots of the posts were leaked by many on social media which came on the heels of nationwide protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death....
  • Actresses, Activists To Magnify Black Women’s Voices In New Instagram Campaign #SHARETHEMICNOW

    06/09/2020 2:38:27 PM PDT · by EdnaMode · 29 replies
    Deadline ^ | June 9, 2020 | Jill Goldsmith
    A new social media campaign launching Wednesday called #ShareTheMicNow will have Black women speak from the Instagram accounts of white women who have large platforms from Julia Roberts to Gwenyth Paltrow, Hilary Swank, Alex Morgan and Kourtney Kardashian. In the initial broad coalition of women, organizer Bozoma Saint John, Chief Marketing Officer at Endeavor, will take over Kourtney Kardashian’s account; Kahlana Barfield Brown will take over Julia Roberts’ account; Latham Thomas will take over Gwenyth Paltrow’s account; Angelica Ross will take over Hilary Swank’s account; and Ibtihaj Muhammad will take over Alex Morgan’s account. #ShareTheMicNow wants to magnify “Black women...
  • Leaked WaPo Memo Underscores Twitter’s Corrosive Impact On Newsrooms

    06/09/2020 2:16:05 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 23 replies
    The Federalist ^ | June 9, 2020 | Emily Jashinsky
    A leaked memo addressed to higher-ups pulled back the curtain on the Washington Post's newsroom, revealing how dramatically Twitter scrambles priorities and distorts the paper's daily coverage. A leaked memo addressed to higher-ups pulled back the curtain on the Washington Post’s newsroom, revealing how dramatically Twitter scrambles priorities and distorts the paper’s daily coverage. This is not a surprising revelation, but it’s useful to see in print. Twitter is single-handedly exacerbating the media’s already serious flaws.Drafted at the request of National Editor Steven Ginsberg by a committee of 10 national reporters in late April, Ben Smith of the New York...
  • Social Media Activism Is A Sorry Substitute For Real Progress

    06/08/2020 8:50:08 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 12 replies
    The Federalist ^ | June 8, 2020 | Casey Chalk
    If Americans want to know where to start helping their fellow citizens in need, the answer is not far away. They only have to put away their devices long enough to see it. #BlackoutTuesday on June 2 was a case study in performance solidarity gone wrong, writes Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah. “Why would a silent black square, with no black people in it, qualify as activism messaging?” she asks. “Many white people expressed that they just didn’t know what to do, they were petrified of posting the wrong thing, and this seemed like the best way to thread the...
  • You all complain about social media being dominated by Liberalism, but how many of you post the FR news sources to your twitter or FB posts?

    06/08/2020 6:52:14 AM PDT · by inchworm · 96 replies
    6/8/20 | Edith All
    Ok so stop complaining and start posting the article sources to your general FB or twittie page discussions. People will share and that's how this news that the lamestream media won't report gets to the general public.
  • Little House on the Prairie's Melissa Gilbert Calls Trump and his supporters racist

    06/07/2020 7:18:52 PM PDT · by EdnaMode · 124 replies
    Instagram ^ | June 7, 2020 | Melissa Gilbert
    We Hate Trump like you hated President Obama. However, we hate Trump because he is racist. You hated Obama because you are racist.
  • Should President Trump Close Facebook, Twitter and Google and Bring in the Military to Quell the Riots?

    06/01/2020 4:10:12 PM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 51 replies
    Michael Savage ^ | 06/01/2020 | Michael Savage
    PODCAST: Should Trump Close Facebook, Twitter and Google and Bring in the Military to Quell the Riots?  https://michaelsavage.com/podcast-should-trump-close-facebook-twitter-and-google-and-bring-in-military-to-quell-the-riots/  
  • Trump signs social media executive order

    05/31/2020 2:01:19 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 69 replies
    Fox Business ^ | 31/5/20 | Donald J. Trump
    President Trump signs executive order regarding social media.
  • Real Facts Are Catching Up With White House At Last(Barf Alert)

    05/29/2020 3:31:50 PM PDT · by Ennis85 · 21 replies
    Press Reader ^ | 29th May 2020 | Irish Independent Editorial Staff
    THERE’S always a moment when an electorate falls out of love with a leader, and the leader is the last to notice. Donald Trump has weathered several. Yet try though he might to mark it as a triumph – that the pandemic has claimed “only” 100,000 American lives, the sombre milestone just crossed – the wider population, especially the elderly so critical to his re-election hopes, must see it differently. Mr Trump believes the truth can be tamed and made to roll over in the White House circus he has created. All the while, he cracks a deafening whip as...
  • CONGRESS MUST AMEND IMMUNITY LAW PROTECTING SOCIAL MEDIA

    05/29/2020 1:05:48 PM PDT · by street_lawyer · 10 replies
    BAD NEWS JOURNAL ^ | MAY29, 2020 | BAD NEWS JOURNAL
    CONGRESS MUST AMEND IMMUNITY LAW PROTECTING SOCIAL MEDIA ISSUE: Congress has to amend the statute, which of course they will not. Meanwhile we are supposed to be placated by the expectation that Trump is actually going to accomplish something. It’s the same shell game that has me pulling my hair out. BNJ would argue the case. Napolitano, Levin etc won’t agree for sure, but here goes:
  • Twitter places warning label on Trump tweet about Minneapolis protests [with PDJT response]

    05/29/2020 4:59:54 AM PDT · by kevcol · 44 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | May 29, 2020 | Mike Brest
    Twitter placed a warning label on one of President Trump's tweets about the protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota over George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody. The social media giant said the early Friday morning tweet, which called the protesters "THUGS" and implied they could be shot, "glorified violence" and therefore violated Twitter's rules on violence. Twitter did not take the tweet down, but it is hidden from view unless a user wants to see it. . . . "Twitter is doing nothing about all of the lies & propaganda being put out by China or the Radical...
  • 'Tantamount to monopoly': Trump signs executive order to curb 'unchecked power' of social media giants

    05/28/2020 3:31:05 PM PDT · by kevcol · 26 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | May 28, 2020 | Spencer Neale
    "What they're doing is tantamount to monopoly, you can say it's tantamount to taking over the airwaves," Trump said. "Can't let it happen. Otherwise, we're not going to have a Democracy, we're not going to have anything to do with a republic." Trump announced that he is directing his administration to "develop policies and procedures to ensure taxpayer dollars are not going in any social media company that repress free speech." Trump said he would delete Twitter if there was a "fair press" in the United States but that he refuses to do so because of the wide reach the...
  • Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship

    05/28/2020 3:05:35 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 33 replies
    whitehouse.gov ^ | May 28, 2020 | President Donald J Trump
    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:Section 1.  Policy.  Free speech is the bedrock of American democracy.  Our Founding Fathers protected this sacred right with the First Amendment to the Constitution.  The freedom to express and debate ideas is the foundation for all of our rights as a free people.In a country that has long cherished the freedom of expression, we cannot allow a limited number of online platforms to hand pick the speech that Americans may access and convey...
  • So You've Been Publicly Shamed, a Book Review

    05/28/2020 12:03:23 PM PDT · by tbw2 · 13 replies
    Hubpages ^ | January 8, 2018 | Tamara Wilhite
    Jon Ronson’s book “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed” came out in 2015. It may be the first in depth series of interviews on people who have had their reputations and lives ruined by the return of public shaming through the internet, social media and Twitter.
  • It’s Time To Stop Pretending Twitter Is Neutral

    05/28/2020 7:04:25 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 18 replies
    The Federalist ^ | May 28, 2020 | John Daniel Davidson
    If Twitter wants to editorialize and 'factcheck' President TrumpÂ’s tweets with disclaimers, then it should be treated like any other publisher. TwitterÂ’s decision this week to append a disclaimer to President TrumpÂ’s tweets about the risks of mail-in ballot fraud should be enough, at long last, for us to dispense with the fiction that Twitter is nothing more than a neutral platform.ItÂ’s not, it never has been, and itÂ’s time to stop pretending otherwise.Set aside the relative merits of TrumpÂ’s comments and the entire debate about whether mass voting by mail is a good idea, because thatÂ’s not whatÂ’s important...
  • Twitter’s Trump ‘Fact Check’ Does Not Disclose Company Partnered with Groups Pushing Mail-In Ballots

    05/27/2020 6:35:18 PM PDT · by bitt · 16 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 5/27/2020 | aaron klein
    Twitter for the first time put a fact-check label on tweets from President Trump, using the controversial tactic on messages in which the president complained there is “no way” that “mail-in ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent.” It may be instructive that Twitter seized on the mail-in balloting tweets as the first issue from Trump’s rapid fire social media feed to slap with a fact-check label. Twitter did not disclose in its so-called fact-check it is partners with two groups financed by leftist donors that engage in voter participation efforts, including drives pushing mail-in balloting. Advertisement Twitter sits...
  • BREAKING: President Trump to sign Executive Order on Social Media Censorship

    05/27/2020 4:37:25 PM PDT · by RandFan · 577 replies
    Twitter ^ | 27 May 2020 | Jack Posobiec
    @JackPosobiecBREAKING: President Trump to sign Executive Order on Social Media Censorship --- Developments to follow (if any) Developing story...
  • Breaking: Rep. Matt Gaetz Drafting Bill to Drop Big Tech’s Legal Immunity over One-Sided ‘Fact Checks’

    05/27/2020 12:22:09 PM PDT · by RandFan · 41 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 27 May 2020 | SEAN MORAN
    Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) will announce today that he is working with Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee to craft legislation that would strip social media giants of their Section 230 legal immunity if they fact check content on their platforms, according to a copy of his podcast which Breitbart News exclusively obtained. On the Florida conservative’s podcast, Hot Takes with Matt Gaetz, he said that he is working on a bill that would prevent social media giants such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google from fact-checking content on their platforms. Gaetz’s announcement follows as Twitter decided to fact check...
  • Trump: We will regulate or 'close down' social media platforms before they silence conservatives

    05/27/2020 8:10:55 AM PDT · by kevcol · 141 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | May 27, 2020 | David Sherfinski
    President Trump on Wednesday threatened to “strongly regulate” or close down social media platforms if they silence conservative voices, stepping up his criticism after Twitter attached fact-checking context to Mr. Trump’s tweets for the first time on Tuesday. “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen,” the president said on Twitter. “We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of that…happen again,” the president said.
  • NYPD second-in-command rips Central Park ‘Karen’ over ‘disturbing’ incident

    05/26/2020 11:59:10 AM PDT · by Impala64ssa · 60 replies
    NY Post ^ | 5/26/20 | Amanda Woods
    The now-viral video of a white woman who called the cops on a black man in Central Park is “disturbing” — but “we’ve got bigger fish to fry” than pursuing charges against her, NYPD First Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Tucker said Tuesday morning. The video shows the woman, identified in reports as Amy Cooper, on the phone telling police: “There is an African American man. I am in Central Park. He is recording me and threatening myself and my dog.” The man had asked the woman to leash her dog. In an interview with PIX11, Tucker called it “an unfortunate incident,...