by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2018 A dozen of the largest U.S. tech companies sent representatives to a private meeting on Aug. 24 to discuss how to handle warring political digital media strategies ahead of the 2018 midterms. Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, invited the companies, which include Google, Microsoft, and Snapchat, to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2018 The University of North Carolina Board of Governors on Aug. 23 said an outside firm would be retained to investigate how university and local police responded to the toppling of the Confederate Silent Sam statue on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. A mob of some 250 protesters toppled the statue […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2018 A conservative think tank reported that it had its donation processing system blocked by Visa and Mastercard after it was labeled a “hate group” by the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The David Horowitz Freedom Center in an email to supporters said the SPLC had convinced Mastercard and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2018 Five newly uncovered emails which were sent or received on then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unsecure non-state.gov email system contain classified information, a government watchdog group announced on Aug. 16. Judicial Watch, which obtained the documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, said the new documents […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2018 A black man and “loyal southerner” was outraged that a mob of protesters toppled a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. On Aug. 22, two days after protesters knocked down the Silent Sam statue, H.K. Edgerton stood at the scene holding a Confederate flag, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2018 The death of an investigative journalist who was working on an article on former CIA Director John Brennan was likely a tragic accident, the journalist’s widow said. Michael Hastings, a writer for BuzzFeed, died in a fiery car crash in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles on June […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2018 President Donald Trump “is in the clear” after former Trump attorney Michael Cohen on Aug. 21 pleaded guilty to criminal offenses that “don’t exist,” radio host Mark Levin said on Fox News’s “Hannity”. Cohen pleaded guilty to charges of campaign finance violations, tax evasion, and false statements to a financial […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2018 “It appears that Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have all gone to war with President Trump, and are punishing anyone who dares to speak up for him,” columnist Doug Wead wrote for The Federalist on Aug. 17. Wead noted that new membership on his Facebook page “stopped dead,” and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 21, 2018 Congressional investigators are reportedly looking into a meeting between former CIA Director John Brennan and Sen. Harry Reid which took place days before Reid’s letter asking the FBI to investigate alleged Trump campaign ties to Russia was leaked to the media. Brennan, late in the summer of 2016, met […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 21, 2018 Environmentalists for many years have spoken out about how the Earth is getting, well, taken advantage of by its inhabitants. This may not be what they meant. It seems that some tree huggers are taking it to the next level, as evidenced by a recently published article in the […]
