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Associated PressMay 22, 2017

A co-founder of Twitter says he’s sorry if the popular social media platform helped put Donald Trump in the White House, as the president has suggested. In an interview with The New York Times, Evan Williams says Twitter’s role in Trump’s populist rise is “a very bad thing.” The president has credited Twitter with his election […]

Scott PowersApril 21, 2017

A twine noose taped to a postcard and nasty comments sent in the mail and via social media are showing racist hatred Orlando’s State Attorney Aramis Ayala is receiving as she battles in court with Gov. Rick Scott over whether she has the power to refuse to pursue death penalty prosecutions. The twine noose was […]

Associated PressFebruary 3, 2017

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The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local): 1:28 p.m. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will direct the Treasury secretary to review the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial overhaul. It’s Trump’s first step at scaling back regulations on financial services. Trump has called the law a “disaster” and said it failed to […]

Michael MolineJanuary 19, 2017

In a post-truth world, beset by fake news, in which people segregate into information bubbles impenetrable to unfriendly ideas, constitutional scholar Jeffrey Rosen finds inspiration in Louis Brandeis, the late justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Addressing students Thursday at the Florida State University College of Law, Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution […]

Associated PressNovember 28, 2016

The drama, disputes and falsehoods that permeated Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign are now roiling his transition to the White House, forcing aides to defend his baseless assertions of illegal voting and sending internal fights spilling into public. On Monday, a recount effort, led by Green Party candidate Jill Stein and joined by Hillary Clinton‘s campaign […]

Associated PressOctober 26, 2016

Back in June, when Donald Trump slammed President Barack Obama‘s endorsement of Hillary Clinton on Twitter, the Democrat’s campaign was quick to tweet back a chilly three-word response: “Delete your account.” It was a telling exchange, and not just because it set the stage for what has become the country’s first nationwide Twitter election. It […]

Guest AuthorOctober 25, 2016

If you ask most Americans, they will tell you they can’t wait for this year’s presidential election to be over. The 2016 presidential campaign has been one with no decorum or class — a very dirty, vicious political race. It has exasperated an already overblown antipathy toward American politics and those who govern us. Americans […]

Associated PressOctober 10, 2016

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CJ McCollum, Jamal Crawford and Jacob Tamme are among current and former professional athletes on social media to criticize Donald Trump‘s characterization of his predatory, sexual comments about women from a 2005 video as “locker room talk.” Trump’s campaign described his remarks as “locker room banter” in a statement Saturday, and the Republican presidential nominee […]

Blake DowlingOctober 3, 2016

Who remembers the short-lived site, Friendster? Six years ago I was asked to sit on a panel at a conference to give “expert advice” on social media use at work. I wish someone had shot some video footage; in the lifetime of social media, six years is an eternity. Just think … in 2008, Myspace […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 27, 2016

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Donald Trump’s boast in Monday night’s presidential debate that his strongest asset is his temperament is being thrown back at him in a new ad by Priorities USA, Hillary Clinton’s super PAC. “I have much better judgment than she does,” Trump said. “I think my strongest asset, maybe by far, is my temperament. I have […]

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Twitter leader says he’s ‘sorry’ for social media role in Donald Trump’s election

Twine noose lowlights hate being sent Aramis Ayala’s way

Donald Trump takes aim at Dodd-Frank financial overhaul

Jeffrey Rosen urges law students to channel their inner Louis Brandeis

Donald Trump drama rolls on: Disputes, falsehoods hit transition

The Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton Twitter war: Bludgeon vs. stiletto

Steven Kurlander: 2016 election legacy — wishing it would end already

Athletes take issue with Donald Trump over “locker room talk”

Blake Dowling: Expert advice on navigating the social media universe

Hillary Clinton super PAC puts up new ad on Donald Trump’s temperament