List of Social Media articles
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iceland-crop Profile in Courage: Iceland’s President Denounces Pineapple As a Pizza Topping
Finally, a world leader brave enough to take a stand.
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ru-in-uk Could Someone Please Explain What Embassies Are Up To on Twitter?
Public diplomacy gone wild.
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twitter The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted, but the Revolutionary’s Release Might Be
Twitter couldn't overthrow authoritarian governments. Can it at least help those they put in prison?
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Malik Obama, a step brother to US Democratic presidential hopeful Barak Obama, talks with the aid of a bulhorn November 2, 2008 to villagers at Kogelo, the Obama's rural home in Siaya district during a football match he sponsored in honour of Barak Obama's anticipated victory in the US polls on November 04. Excitement continues to mount in Kisumu, the headquarter of Kenya's Western province as the 'Son of Kenya', a term increasingly used to refer to Barak given his fathers Kenyan origins, as Obama continues to lead his main rival, Republican John McCain in preliminary polls two days to the historic vote. AFP PHOTO Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images) 15 Questions Malik Obama Has Posed on Twitter This November
Obama's half-brother wants the answers.
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gettyimages-512421372crop Can Facebook — and the Republic — Solve the Fake News Problem?
Incendiary false news reports proliferated on the platform during the U.S. election campaign.
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GettyImages-187250105 Twitter Just Suspended 235,000 Extremist Accounts. It’s the Ones Still Open That Are the Problem.
Accounts of many known terrorists remain open.
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GettyImages-170323801crop Spear Phishing in Tehran
Iranian hackers are increasingly using the tools of cyber-espionage against exiles and dissidents.
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GettyImages-546955694 crop What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About Zimbabwe’s #ThisFlag Movement
It's not just on the internet and it's not just about President Mugabe.
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GettyImages-455266576crop Suppressing Extremist Speech: There’s an Algorithm for That!
A GOP operative and an academic are teaming up to go after the Islamic State online, but Silicon Valley isn’t buying it.
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GettyImages-538715274 Clinton to Trump: Delete Your Twitter Account
Hillary Clinton issued a cold social media rebuke to Donald Trump.
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An application icon for Line Corp.'s internet messaging and calling service, controlled by Naver Corp., and other application icons are displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone 5s in an arranged photograph in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. SoftBank Corp. is seeking to buy a stake in Line, people with knowledge of the matter said. Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg via Getty Images Essay contest (13): We need effective operations in the realm of social media
The United States military and government in general must effectively harness the power of social media.
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TEHRAN, IRAN - FEBRUARY 28: A posture featuring the picture of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is passed by Iranian women outside Ali Zakani's main campaign headquarters on February 28, 2012 inTehran, Iran. Campaigning began in Iran on February 23 for the parliamentary elections due to take place on March 2, the first national poll since 2009, when the voters will chose lawmakers (known as the Majlis) for the 290 seats in the parliament. (Photo by ) The Latest Musings of Ayatollah Khamenei, Feminist
In marking International Women's Day, Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has accused the West of objectifying women.
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TOPSHOT - ADDITION- People watch a news report on North Korea's first hydrogen bomb test at a railroad station in Seoul on January 6, 2016. South Korea "strongly" condemned North Korea's shock hydrogen bomb test and vowed to take "all necessary measures" to penalise its nuclear-armed neighbour. The image shown on TV shows files images from other nuclear tests from other countries and the caption in red at the bottom of the screen reads "the Blue House will convene an emergency meeting of the NSC, the National Security Council." AFP PHOTO / JUNG YEON-JE / AFP / JUNG YEON-JE (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images) North Korea’s 24-Hour Nuclear Cycle
How to track a nuclear explosion in the Twitter era.
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GettyImages-503469200 Oregon Occupiers Again Trolled on Social Media
An Oregon occupier who tearfully pledged loyalty to the Constitution gets trolled hard on Twitter.
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GettyImages-501730298vrop Why Did Brazil Block WhatsApp?
Was it encryption... or the tangled web of extraterritorial data requests?
