A year ago, we covered the debut of the Clinton campaign’s Twitter posse. Now that we’re in debate season, we get to watch her rally the troops. Pre-debate, her team sends out preparatory messages, like this one that arrived today...
Watch those hands, Robbie! Via Shaun Dakin, important news about Trump’s and Clinton’s social-media support around the last presidential debate: A University of Oxford study indicates [Trump] may have had some help in the form of pro...
Today’s excellent-as-always Daily 202 includes an illustration of how a single influential person can shift the online discussion: “The chart below [Ed. note: reprinted above] shows the spike in mentions of a “rigged”...
Great observation from Mark Hmmer, via The Daily 202: The genius of the Trump Clinton Twitter war of 2016 is that it consumes Trump's every waking minute & Clinton doesn't know it's happening. — Mark Hammer (@markhammer1987)...
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton don’t agree on much: perhaps the only things they have in common besides being classified as Homo sapiens are their personal ambition and a profound aversion to having the press mucking around in their business...
Beth Becker’s latest “Political Social Grab Bag” e-newsletter is out, and you should check out the whole April issue archived right here, an Epolitics.com online exclusive. Sign up now to get the next Political Social Grab Bag...
As reported in Gizmodo yesterday: Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending†news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project...
Hi folks, lots of good stuff coming soon, including e-book excerpts, a new edition of Technology Bytes and an entirely new publication! We’ve been busy down here in the bunker, and you’ll get to share in the fruits of our labors shortly...
Beth Becker’s latest “Political Social Grab Bag” e-newsletter is out, and you should check out the whole April issue archived right here, an Epolitics.com online exclusive. Sign up now to get the next Political Social Grab Bag...
Shortly before I headed to lovely California earlier in March, Sinclair Broadcast Group reporter Amanda Ota wrote up a long conversation we had about the White House’s social media full-court press around the nomination of Merrck Garland to...