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People hate phone calls and ignore emails, so how do you get them to protest, organize, fundraise, and fight for the causes they believe in? By talking to them like humans, one-on-one. This is the way Hustle motivates people to participate at scale, and how its messages reached 3.95 million voters on election day.
Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc on Monday announced measures aimed at halting the spread of "fake news" on the internet by targeting how some purveyors of phony content make money: advertising. Google said it is working on a policy change to prevent websites that misrepresent content from using its AdSense advertising network, while Facebook updated its advertising policies to spell out that its ban on deceptive and misleading content applies to fake news.
Google's search engine highlighted an inaccurate story claiming that President-elect Donald Trump won the popular vote in last week's election, the latest example of bogus information spread by the internet's gatekeepers. The incorrect results were shown Monday in a two-day-old story posted on the pro-Trump "70 News" site.
'Don't be afraid': Trump looks to reassure divided America in first TV interview as President-elect and opens up on abortion, same-sex marriage, Obamacare and THAT vow to punish Hillary The Ex-Goldman banker and Breitbart exec who once said he didn't want his daughters 'going to school with Jews': Meet Steve Bannon, Trump's chief strategist 'Sometimes you just have to take a look in the mirror': Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway says Hillary should blame HERSELF for historic loss rather than focusing on the role of the FBI Trump says he will 'immediately' deport two to three million illegal immigrants with criminal records - and insists that he WILL build a border wall Reince Priebus AND Steve Bannon will lead Trump's White House: Donald makes insider RNC head his chief of staff - but scorched earth practitioner is chief strategist and gets announced President-elect Trump can't put ... (more)
'Don't be afraid': Trump looks to reassure divided America in first TV interview as President-elect and opens up on abortion, same-sex marriage, Obamacare and THAT vow to punish Hillary The Ex-Goldman banker and Breitbart exec who once said he didn't want his daughters 'going to school with Jews': Meet Steve Bannon, Trump's chief strategist 'Sometimes you just have to take a look in the mirror': Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway says Hillary should blame HERSELF for historic loss rather than focusing on the role of the FBI Trump says he will 'immediately' deport two to three million illegal immigrants with criminal records - and insists that he WILL build a border wall Reince Priebus AND Steve Bannon will lead Trump's White House: Donald makes insider RNC head his chief of staff - but scorched earth practitioner is chief strategist and gets announced President-elect Trump can't put ... (more)
Donald Trump says social media helped him win the presidential election -- but he'll be "restrained" about using Twitter and Facebook once in power. In an interview with CBS, set to air on Sunday, Trump also tells Lesley Stahl that social media gives him "a method of fighting back" against negative news coverage.
Less than 24 hours ago, John Goodwin posted a Facebook post about the Trump win and "intolerant liberal elites." The post went viral -- it exploded across social media.
Not so fast, said the social giant's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Sure, its News Feed isn't perfect, but Zuckerberg said it would be "pretty crazy" to think fake news articles had swayed voters.
Mothers and sons, sisters and brothers, friends unfriended - it's been tough for some on opposing sides who must now figure out the way forward. They wonder what their ties will feel like a month from now.
A well-intentioned but overzealous state law barring registered sex offenders from using Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media - whether or not their crimes involved either children or the internet - is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. Durham resident Lester Gerard Packingham appealed his 2012 conviction of maintaining a social media profile as a sex offender, arguing that the state law is unconstitutional.
Mothers and sons, sisters and brothers, friends unfriended - it's been tough for some on opposing sides who must now figure out the way forward. They wonder what their ties will feel like a month from now.
I've noticed two distinct ways social media have changed the way we talk to each other about politics. Clearly, they have changed a lot, maybe everything, but two fairly new phenomena stand out.
"Facebook along with other social media sites have taken aggressive actions to silence conservative voices such as ourselves," the pro-Trump social media stars charged. It's a claim Facebook denies, pointing out that the social media network has changed its settings so that users see more content from friends - and less from political groups of all stripes.
The surprise collaboration of Beyonce and the Dixie Chicks at the Country Music Association Awards was still rocking the music world on Thursday, but not all were impressed by the electric performance - and some country fans unleashed their anger on social media. MB FILE - Beyonce performs onstage with Emily Robison and Natalie Maines of Dixie Chicks at the 50th annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on November 2, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Facebook reported its latest quarterly data on Wednesday. Revenue climbed, profits soared, user numbers jumped, so why on earth did its stock value suddenly tumble?\ Facebook reported its latest quarterly data.
The White House says Obama's official @POTUS account will be taken over by the next president, who will start with a huge following but a clean slate of tweets. Obama's tweets will move over to a new handle, @POTUS44, by the National Archives and Records Administration .
A line of police move towards a roadblock and encampment of Native American and environmental protesters near an oil pipeline construction site, near the town of Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. October 27, 2016 Tens of thousands of people have checked in on Facebook at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in the past few days. They are expressing solidarity with protests against the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota, which have faced an increasingly brutal backlash from police.
Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that went to white readers. The ubiquitous social network not only allows advertisers to target users by their interests or background, it also gives advertisers the ability to exclude specific groups it calls "Ethnic Affinities."
In his latest attempt to cast doubt on the election process, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump raised suspicions Thursday about the voting machines in reliably Republican Texas despite producing no evidence of an actual problem. "A lot of call-ins about vote flipping at the voting booths in Texas.
In his latest attempt to cast doubt on the election process, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump raised suspicions Thursday about the voting machines in reliably Republican Texas despite producing no evidence of an actual problem. "A lot of call-ins about vote flipping at the voting booths in Texas.