As the US presidential election rages on, President Barack Obama took the time to return to Jimmy Kimmel Live’s beloved “Mean Tweets” on Tuesday night. The segment has celebrities read out and respond to insults hurled at them on Twitter. Donald Trump, himself famous for mean tweets, eventually came up at the end of the …
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With about two weeks left before the US presidential election, Donald Trump is shaking up his White House efforts with the launch of a nightly campaign coverage program. Starting Monday, the video program will run on Trump’s Facebook campaign page weeknights at 6:30 p.m. ET, the Trump campaign announced on its Facebook page. The program will originate from Trump Tower …
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Halley’s Comet is still a few decades away from returning, but it’s left a gift in the meantime. Meanwhile, back on Earth, don’t expect much greatness to come out of Twitter on Friday morning because the social network is experiencing an outage. Social Cues is your go-to guide on what’s buzzing across Facebook and Twitter. Here’s what is trending on …
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It’s no secret that Twitter is Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s favorite platform, but now he’ll be putting money into his opponent’s pocket each time he clicks Send. Enlarge Image Screenshots by Ry Crist/CNET It’s all thanks to an admittedly clever new “Troll Trump” fund-raising tool from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Supporters pledge to donate a set amount of money …
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The third and final debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Wednesday night quickly engulfed social media, and the heated showdown left a long trail of simmering memes and recaps. Facebook and Twitter latched onto several phrases from the Republican candidate, even creating games out of his performance. Social Cues is your go-to guide for what your friends and …
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Donald Trump may have used Wednesday night’s debate with Hillary Clinton to test the waters for a new, much-rumored TV network. As the candidates prepared to square off for the third and final presidential debate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the Republican nominee for president posted a live feed to the debate with a comment that said: “If …
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It’s the final debate before Election Day, and Twitter is already revving up. The previous face-off between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton became the most tweeted debate in Twitter’s history. Wednesday night’s showdown is poised to break the record again. Social Cues is a daily feature on what’s buzzing across Facebook and Twitter. Here is what’s trending across social media …
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Here’s what social media tells us about the final presidential debate: We’re sick of politics. Analysis of social media data pulled before, during and after Wednesday night’s showdown between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton in Las Vegas yielded dismal, if predictable, results. Neither candidate inspires the electorate, at least in the social media landscape. But Trump inspired voters …
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From his desk in the corner of the Ed Sullivan Theater graphics lab, Tim Luecke wields a power craved by Reince Priebus, Paul Ryan and countless other Republican poobahs: the ability to control Donald Trump. Tapping at his keyboard and talking to his computer monitor’s camera, Luecke, lead animator for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” operates a cantaloupe-colored cartoon …
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Ecuador confirmed Tuesday that it severed Julian Assange’s internet access over concerns the WikiLeaks founder was using it to interfere with the US presidential election. Assange, who has been living in asylum in Ecuador’s embassy in London for four years, lost his internet privileges last weekend, a move that the Ecuadorian embassy took responsibility for on Monday. The Ecuadorian government …
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