Donald Trump has gone on a tweet storm again. His target: House Speaker Paul Ryan. The GOP presidential nominee on Tuesday took to Twitter to lash out at Ryan, a fellow Republican, just a month before Election Day. The blast of tweets, which labeled Ryan “weak and ineffective, further fractures a party that already appears …
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton sparred Sunday night in one of the most contentious debates in modern political history. Followers of each presidential candidate, unsurprisingly, took the contest online. The 90-minute duel between the real-estate mogul and seasoned Washington veteran, with just a month to go before Election Day 2016, was the most-tweeted political debate in the 10 years of …
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Mobile phones have already been banned from UK Cabinet meetings, and now another gadget has reportedly been shown the door: the Apple Watch. The concern, according to a Telegraph story Monday, is that smartwatches and phones could be hacked by Russian spies and turned into listening devices. “The Russians are trying to hack everything,” a source told The Telegraph. Hacking …
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Though not as splashy as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine faced off Tuesday in the only vice presidential debate of the election season, and within 10 minutes they prompted campaign watchers to tweet out more than 56,000 comments using the hashtag #VPDebate. The hashtag was eventually mentioned more than 2.1 million times, according …
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Controversial website WikiLeaks began spilling secrets 10 years ago, and it’s not done yet. In coming weeks, the site is set to publish documents related to Google, the US presidential election and more, according to controversial founder Julian Assange. A video showing the top 10 leaks on the site today opened a press conference marking the 10th anniversary of the …
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Hillary Clinton has achieved an unusual accomplishment: more Google searches than her competitor. Searches for the Democratic nominee outpaced those for Republican challenger Donald Trump 60 percent to 40 percent during the pair’s spirited and closely watched debate on Monday night, according to Google. Interest in the former secretary of state was greater than that in the reality TV star …
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Now playing: Watch this: Snapchat is getting really serious about voting selfies 1:25 Happy election season! The internet really, really wants you to vote A Google Doodle shows you how to register to vote Where can you vote? This f*&%ing site can help With the 2016 presidential election just a few weeks away, there’s no better time than right now …
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More than 80 million people tuned in Monday night for the first presidential debate. And that was just on TV. The numbers are still being sorted out, but millions more watched the spirited give-and-take between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other streaming services. Facebook said real-time video of the debate was streamed 55 …
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton dug into the issues during the first presidential debate Monday night, but the internet seemed more interested in Trump’s sniffles and who else — or what else — might be more worthy of a vote. Media experts predicted as many as 112 million would watch the debate across the many channels where it could be …
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Predictably, the first debate for the 2016 presidential election generated a lot of tweets supporting and criticizing things spoken by the two candidates. One of the hottest was one that claimed that Republican nominee Donald Trump was deleting tweets during the debate. A Twitter user named Juan Vidal, who claimed to be a writer and book critic for NPR, published …
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