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Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have hired a Democratic pollster, increasing speculation that the Facebook CEO is considering entering the political arena, according to a Politico report published on Wednesday. The pollster, Joel Benenson, is a former top adviser for Barack Obama and was chief strategist for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
LinkedIn and HiQ are embroiled in a legal battle that might decide the future of web scraping. The concept of data scraping from websites is a controversial one and the law that governs it is, unsurprisingly, contentious too.
A Connecticut college professor has created a firestorm for calling white people "inhuman a-holes" who need to "die" following last week's shooting attack on congressional Republicans. Trinity College's Johnny Eric Williams' social media feed after the June 14 shooting of Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise included racial tirades and commentary calling on minorities to "confront" white people and "end this now," a reference to an alleged system of "white supremacy."
Many of the nation's top tech CEOs met with President Donald Trump again at the White House on Monday, but there were some notable exceptions: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX. Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott, himself a former businessman, said that created a "missed opportunity" for them.
Karen Handel campaigns in Johns Creek, Ga., ahead of Tuesday's runoff election to replace former Tom Price. Democrat Jon Ossoff is trying for an upset over Handel in the GOP-leaning Sixth Congressional District that stretches across greater Atlanta's northern suburbs.
This photo from Facebook shows James T. Hodgkinson. A government official says Hodgkinson is the suspect in the Virginia shooting that injured Rep. Steve Scalise and several others.
The political climate on social media continues to further divide a country already at odds after last year's presidential election. The man who shot Congressman Steve Scalise and three others Wednesday at a ballpark in Virginia had an extensive history of posting his frustrations on social media before resorting to violence.
"I'm getting all of these hateful messages," said O'Grady, "and they started turning from, 'You should be fired,' to more along the lines of, 'You're completely unpatriotic and you don't deserve your position,' and started getting kind of nasty." O'Grady, a communications professor at New York University, scanned her social media profiles trying to make sense of the messages pouring in and quickly uncovered why she was being targeted.
As President Donald Trump faces criticism for blocking users on his Twitter account, people across the country say they, too, have been cut off by elected officials at all levels of government after voicing dissent on social media. In Arizona, a disabled Army veteran grew so angry when her congressman blocked her and others from posting dissenting views on his Facebook page that she began delivering actual blocks to his office.
Well I hope we get into this because look, I take responsibility for every decision I made, but that's not why I lost. "So people went to vote on November 8th having no idea that there was an active counter intelligence investigation going on of the Trump campaign", she said .
President Trump will surely be interested to hear about Luckey's alternative wall that doesn't involve building an actual wall. Palmer Luckey's name will always be associated with virtual reality, his $2 billion fortune from selling Oculus Rift to Facebook, and subsequent departure following the controversy surrounding secretly bankrolling a group circulating anti-Hillary Clinton propaganda.
China and Europe have pledged to unite to save "Mother Earth" in the face of US President Donald's Trump's decision to take the world's second largest carbon polluter out of the Paris climate change pact. "Only I can do that", he said , a reference to his role in the "Terminator" franchise.
Members of a Facebook group dedicated to the search for missing Yolo County teens Enrique Rios and Elijah Moore will hold a fundraiser Sunday, June 4, to bolster FBI rewards that have been offered for information about their whereabouts. "Angels for Enrique and Elijah Silent Auction" will run from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Odd Fellows Hall, 415 Second St. in downtown Davis.
Last summer, Johannes Baldauf, an anti-hate-speech activist from Berlin, got a request for help from an unexpected place: Facebook Inc. When it came to stemming the spread of extremist messaging, Baldauf was accustomed to seeing the giant social network as part of the problem. Now it was asking him and other activists to act as a kinder, gentler, online version of Quentin Tarantino's Nazi-hunting Inglourious Basterds squad.
Frustrated by non-experts taking to the internet to dispute the science behind human-made climate change, North Carolina meteorologist Greg Fishel issued a challenge to climate deniers, urging them to "put up or shut up" and "submit your work the way real scientists do, and see where it takes you." The News & Observer highlighted Fishel's challenge, which he posted on Facebook, in a May 22 article , reporting that Fishel "went off on people who question the science behind climate change."
Police say roughly 30 people were partying on a sidewalk while live streaming on Facebook's platform when an unknown gunman opened fire on the crowd, reports the Associated Press. As many as 27 shots were fired in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood, a northern part of the city where fatal shootings occur relatively often .
Horrifying video shows how boy, eight, was assaulted and left unconscious on a school bathroom floor while classmates kicked him for FIVE MINUTES - two days before he committed suicide Bring it on! Sacked FBI boss Comey would WELCOME published tapes of his talks with Trump, his friends say - as Spicer refuses to deny they exist Hackers unleash global cyber carnage with tens of thousands of computers in 74 countries crippled, including Britain's health service Michelle Obama suggest Trump doesn't care about kids while speaking at health summit and promises she and Barack are 'not gone, just breathing' James Comey was 'uneasy' about dinner with Trump where he was asked for 'loyalty' oath: Former top spy hits back at attacks on sacked FBI chief War on drugs is back with a vengeance: Sessions tells federal prosecutors to push for harsher punishments as he reverses softer policy from the ... (more)
'I'm Conrad motherf***ing Hilton, don't you forget it': Paris's brother is filmed unleashing homophobic and racist rant at police after claiming a cop groped him during arrest Phoenix 'serial street shooter', accused of murdering NINE people in a year, is caught: Suspect, 23, who terrorized Latino community is arrested after tip from the public Trump's aides 'asked Canada's Justin Trudeau to call their boss and talk him out of removing the US from NAFTA' Racial discrimination lawsuit against Fox News grows as two more women accuse former executive Judy Slater of making racist comments towards them PICTURED: The 18 Penn State students charged after fraternity pledge's death as it is revealed group spent $1,200 on cases of vodka, beer and Four Loko days before teen suffered fatal fall Penn State student who was attacked by fraternity brothers when he tried to help dying teen suffered ... (more)
Texas charged to the forefront of the national debate over immigration as Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a so-called "sanctuary cities" ban that lets police ask during routine stops whether someone is in the U.S. legally and threatens sheriffs with jail if they don't cooperate with federal immigration agents. The new Texas law was blasted by opponents as the nation's toughest on immigrants since Arizona's crackdown in 2010.
The 2020 election cycle might have already started. The Federal Election Commission shows that 129 people have filed to run for president in the next election.