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While Republicans capitalized on using new media to win the 2024 elections, squabbles about social media influencers spilled into the open.
Americans’ confidence in social media companies and their executives is plummeting. Distrust is even more common among Republicans, a new report says. $3,500 iPhone possible?
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries posted a photo of himself holding a baseball bat in opposition of President Trump's ...
Dan Patrick and a variety of other Republican Party leaders from Tarrant County are denouncing Tarrant County GOP Chairman Bo ...
The public got a taste of the new normal this summer, when social media was flooded with misinformation following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and the platforms ...
The push to open social media companies up to more lawsuits extends to Capitol Hill, where top Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), have called for weakening or ...
Republicans like to say that social media platform moderation should offer "political neutrality," a word that does not appear in 230. But of course neutrality isn't really what they want.
Republican House candidates are outpacing Democrats on social media by a large margin, receiving up to seven times more shares per post, according to a new study. A recent analysis by marketing ...
Social media companies once helped curb the “stolen election” myth. Now, they’re allowing it to spread ahead of the midterms, setting the stage for candidates to be able to deny results.
Social media is what allows Republicans to do this cheap microtargeting with tested messages. In contrast, Democrats often focus on uncoordinated, ineffective, ...
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), chair of the influential Republican Study Committee, is working on his own legislation that could impose common carrier obligations on social media platforms to target ...
The social media post listed 10 bills that it said have been introduced in the House by Republicans. All 10 bills in the post have in fact been introduced. Seven were described accurately, while ...