Category Archives: social media and social protests
Twitter Refuses to Remove Information Lying to Voters About How to Vote
A Twitter user complained about dirty tricks using tweets telling voters they can vote by text from home. (They can’t).
Twitter says it won’t remove the items.
Bad policy.
UPDATE: TPM reports the account has been suspended.
“On Twitter, Trump bots are out-tweeting Clinton bots 7 to 1”
Recode:
A huge percentage of election-related talk on Twitter isn’t coming from humans. It’s coming from bots.
And the majority of those bots are gunning for Trump to win the race, according to a paper released yesterday from Oxford University’s… Continue reading
“Some Donald Trump Voters Call for Revolution if Hillary Clinton Wins”
NYT:
People are going to march on the capitols,” said Mr. Halbrook, who works at a call center. “They’re going to do whatever needs to be done to get her out of office, because she does not belong there.”
“If… Continue reading
“Could Donald Trump Reject the Election Results? Yes. Would It Do Any Good? Nope.”
Nick Corasaniti has written this article for the NYT.
“Hyperpartisan Facebook Pages Are Publishing False And Misleading Information At An Alarming Rate”
BuzzFeed:
Hyperpartisan political Facebook pages and websites are consistently feeding their millions of followers false or misleading information, according to an analysis by BuzzFeed News. The review of more than 1,000 posts from six large hyperpartisan Facebook pages selected from… Continue reading
“Anti-Semitic Posts, Many From Trump Supporters, Surge on Twitter”
NYT:
She had seen her face superimposed on the body of a concentration camp inmate. She had been called “a slimy Jewess.” She had been told she “deserved the oven.” One anonymous individual had electronically harassed her for 19 hours… Continue reading
“Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Uses Pokémon Go to Register Voters”
WSJ:
Hillary Clinton is hoping to use Pokémon Go to catch voters.
At a rally on Thursday, Mrs. Clinton talked about the game phenomenon, saying “I don’t know who created ‘Pokemon Go,’ but I’ve tried to figure out how… Continue reading
“Beware of Robots Telling You How to Vote”
Mark Buchanan for Bloomberg View.
“The RNC Will Be a First Amendment Disaster”
“Commentary: Inconvenient protests are the price of liberty”
Tabatha Abu el-Haj has written this oped for the Philly Inquirer. It begins:
As Philadelphia prepares for the coming protests related to the Democratic National Convention – especially those that will proceed without authorization – it is worth remembering that… Continue reading
“Federal judge overturns Cleveland’s restrictions on RNC protests”
“Will Dominant Images of Conventions Be of Unity or Protest?”
Trip Gabriel for the NYT:
The divisive nominating contests have produced countercurrents of deep resentment in both parties. And next month, that bitterness could spill into the streets in large protests just when Republicans and Democrats — and the host… Continue reading
Against Political Violence
Some thoughts I wrote while Donald Trump supporters were being violently attacked in San Jose.