Trump has a few questions about Mueller’s indictment of Russians

Trump has a few questions about Mueller’s indictment of Russians

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 […]

Social media put a stop to Diamond and Silk but not to Jarrod Warren Ramos

Social media put a stop to Diamond and Silk but not to Jarrod Warren Ramos

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 […]

New study documents stealth suppression of conservative expression by social media giants

New study documents stealth suppression of conservative expression by social media giants

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 – […]

Making America laugh again: President taunts his tormentors

Making America laugh again: President taunts his tormentors

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 […]

Twitter censors Drudge tweet of Trump 2020 slogan as ‘sensitive content’

Twitter censors Drudge tweet of Trump 2020 slogan as ‘sensitive content’

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 […]

Calls for ‘prayers’ after Florida shootings detonates hate bomb from gun control elites

Calls for ‘prayers’ after Florida shootings detonates hate bomb from gun control elites

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, […]

The Russians? Twitter finds #ReleaseTheMemo went viral thanks to Americans

The Russians? Twitter finds #ReleaseTheMemo went viral thanks to Americans

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 […]

Google, Facebook and Drudge reduce former news giants to boutiques

Google, Facebook and Drudge reduce former news giants to boutiques

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 […]

Silenced: U.S. social media giants bow to China’s Xi Jinping

Silenced: U.S. social media giants bow to China’s Xi Jinping

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 […]

Social media giants dominate advertising market and by default the media narrative

Social media giants dominate advertising market and by default the media narrative

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, […]