This Iraqi Facebook engineer was invited to the US under President…

The last time the US was led by a Republican president, President Bush, the State Department launched a program that invited people from Muslim-majority countries to come to the US. The idea was to fight the rising tide of Islamophobia that occurred after 9/11 by inviting kids to study in the US via a cultural exchange program called Youth Exchange & Study .

Trump’s Expanded Social Media Presence Offers Pitfalls

Even though polling suggests an overwhelming majority of Americans want President Donald Trump to curtail his social media presence, he's expanded it - becoming the first U.S. president to formally join Snapchat . The president, who has a very active presence on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook, will now be able to send videos and messages to his supporters on yet another popular platform, presumably in an effort to bypass the traditional press and to perpetuate his persona as a more accessible and unfiltered POTUS.

Trump’s ‘extreme vetting’ evokes widespread condemnation

Washington, Jan 28 - US President Donald Trump's 'extreme vetting' executive order to bar entry to the US to refugees and immigrants from certain Muslim-majority countries has evoked widespread condemnation, including from Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg. The extreme vetting order will suspend the entry of immigrants and non-immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days, whereas refugees from Syria were indefinitely banned.

Facebook atwitter over friendly fox sightings in southern Minnesota

A friendly pet fox named Notchi has gone missing from his Lake-ville home and is gallivanting across southern Minnesota, despite multiple run-ins with humans, a social media campaign and a $1,000 reward for his return. Notchi, a tame, 8-month-old red fox, was rescued from a fur farm as a kit by Mikayla Raines, 21, who has a USDA license to keep foxes.

Sexist, vulgar posts on women’s marches rebound on officials

A school board member in Hillary Clinton's hometown resigned after making a derogatory reference on Twitter to the female anatomy in describing women marching against President Donald Trump. An Illinois teacher was pulled from the classroom for a tweet deemed sexist.

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I've been active on Facebook--which, incidentally, after much kicking and screaming in the beginning I now even believe is not only a fun but productive and "transformative" social media platform for every lawyer in private practice--for about five years. I still see myself as a classic liberal even though I registered Republican in June 2017 as a sort of symbolic note to myself on how much I have changed.

Facebook lifts ban, allows RT to post content1 hour ago

Moscow, Jan 20: After an "unexplained" 20-hour ban on Russian television network RT posting content on its Facebook page till Donald Trump takes oath as US President, the social networking giant on Friday lifted the restriction, allowing RT to go live. Facing criticism for allegedly spreading fake news that favoured Trump and racial bias in hate speech censorship, a Facebook bot banned RT from posting content on its page on Thursday.

A Million Little Manila Envelopes: Truth, ‘Compromot,’ Fake News

In response to my Facebook post that President-Elect Trump's first formal press conference in months was a circus, a Trump supporter told me that it was a "tour-de-force" that Trump had handled "with aplomb." Similarly, in his defense, senior advisor Kellyanne Conway announced during an interview that we shouldn't listen to his words, but rather, look at "what's in his heart."

Former Obama campaign chief David Plouffe joins Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Plouffe, 49, formerly President Barack Obama 's campaign manager, will end his day-to-day activities as adviser to Uber Technologies Inc., although he will remain a non-voting Uber board member. His involvement at Uber has diminished since former Google executive Rachel Whetstone was hired to lead the company's policy and communications divisions, Bloomberg News said Wednesday.

Anti-white hate crimes make up 10.5 per cent of U.S. incidents: FBI stats

Four people were charged with hate crimes Thursday in connection with a Facebook live video showing a man being beaten and taunted, threatened with a knife and forced to drink from a toilet. The horrific beating of a mentally disabled white man in Chicago by four black assailants broadcast on social media is highlighting anti-white hate crimes at a time of increased racial strife in the United States.

Police: Charges coming in Chicago beating aired on Facebook

The Latest on accusations that Russia meddled in America's presidential election to help Donald Trump win : The Latest on accusations that Russia meddled in America's presidential election to help Donald Trump win : Chicago police say charges are expected against four people who police say beat a man in an assault that was broadcast live on Facebook.

Trump to continue making news, policy via Twitter, spokesman says

President-elect Donald Trump won't end the onslaught of posts on Twitter that fed his unconventional campaign, even after taking on the formalized duties of the Oval Office later this month. Making news and issuing statements on social media sites that also include Facebook and Instagram will “absolutely” continue, despite earlier promises by Trump to cut back, incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Sunday on ABC's “This Week.” “You know what? The fact of the matter is that when he tweets, he gets results,” Spicer said.

Sean Spicer: Tweeting Will Be ‘Really Exciting Part’ of Trump’s Presidency

President-elect Donald Trump will continue to tweet after Inauguration Day, because "he has this direct pipeline in the American people, where he can talk back and forth," incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer told Rhode Island news station WPRI. "I think that his use of social media is gonna be something that's never been seen before," Spicer said, adding that Trump's engagement with supporters via social media will be "a really exciting part of the job."