by WorldTribune Staff, July 15, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump took to Twitter on July 14 to respond to the Department of Justice’s indictment of 12 Russians for allegedly meddling in the 2016 election. The president also seized on the opportunity take a few shots at his predecessor, the “Deep State” and “Crooked Hillary.” Trump […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 29, 2018 The suspect in the murders of five employees at The Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland had been reportedly cursing the paper’s staff for years via Twitter. Jarrod Warren Ramos “took to Twitter, where he routinely harassed journalists from the newspaper in scores of profanity-laced tweets,” The Associated Press […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 17, 2018 Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google are makeing a “clear effort to censor the conservative worldview from the public conversation,” according to a new study. The Media Research Center (MRC) study said the social media and tech giants “have declared war on the conservative movement” and “conservatives are losing – […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2018 Joe Biden would “go down fast and hard” in a physical confrontation, President Donald Trump said in response to the former vice president’s insistence that he would have “beat the hell” out of Trump if the two had been schoolmates. “Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2018 Twitter has censored a Drudge Report tweet of President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign slogan, “Keep America Great”, due to “sensitive content”, a report said. “When Twitter users navigate to the page of the Drudge Report with their ‘sensitive content’ filter enabled, they are unable to see the Drudge Report’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 15, 2018 Calls for thoughts and prayers for those at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, including one from a student trapped in the school at the time of the Feb. 14 shooting, were greeted by hateful rhetoric from numerous gun control advocates and celebrities. A student at the Parkland, Florida school, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2018 Twitter’s analytics show that the #ReleaseTheMemo social media campaign went viral because of interested Americans, not Russian troll and bot farms as Democrats had suggested. The #ReleaseTheMemo campaign seeks the release of a four-page report by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee that alleges abuses related to the discredited […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 1, 2017 The narratives that wind up as the “news of the day” for Americans are heavily driven by just four Internet giants – Google, Facebook, Twitter and the Drudge Report. According to Pew Research Center, 45 percent of Americans say they get some of their news from Facebook. “That means […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 26, 2017 Sacrificing principle, not to mention truth, for the elusive attraction of China’s massive market, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have bowed to Beijing and compromised the standards of journalistic integrity once fiercely upheld by the American free press. The most recent suspension by Twitter means that three social media platforms […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 22, 2017 The dominance in the digital advertising market of the two social media Goliaths is only getting larger as the role played by independent, privately-owned media voices fade into near oblivion. The so-called “duopoly” enjoyed by Google and Facebook will account for 63.1 percent of digital advertising investment in 2017, […]