by Emiliana Betancourt | Feb 27, 2023 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — Last week the U.S. Supreme Court considered two cases that could drastically change how social media platforms function. On Tuesday, the court heard Gonzalez v. Google LLC, which could rewrite Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, taking away...
by Stephanie Markowitz | Feb 9, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee’s hearing on Wednesday over Twitter’s temporary suppression of an article about Hunter Biden’s laptop rapidly devolved into partisan fighting about First Amendment rights, claims of collusion between Twitter and the...
by Tara Longardner | Jan 19, 2015 | State of the Union
President Barack Obama’s White House has already made a significant social media push in preparation for Tuesday’s State of the Union address. The effort is aimed at people who might ordinarily skip the annual policy speech. The president first announced his proposal...
by Ellen Garrison | Mar 7, 2014 | Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley might be a 79 year-old Republican, but he knows how to connect to young American voters better than many of his younger colleagues — via Twitter. “People make fun of him because he has typos and he has weird misspellings and it...
by Rachel Morello | Feb 14, 2012 | Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON – Voters using Twitter from their phones in the last three days have seen such trending topics as Grammy updates, budget news and everything in between. They may have read tweets from their favorite celebrity or news outlet. Or perhaps even from Rick...
