Posts Tagged ‘Politics’

U.S. Representative Ed Markey has proposed legislation that would make it very difficult for anyone to go online and track young American children.

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The small country of Iceland is crowdsourcing its constitution.

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Facebook will feature prominently in CNN’s coverage of the New Hampshire Republican Presidential debate airing tonight at 8 pm eastern.
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Social Code has released a first-of-its-kind Facebook advertisement-based study of New Hampshire and Iowa voter reactions to 2012 GOP presidential candidates and popular Republican messages.

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European Union data-protection regulators have reportedly said that they are launching a probe of Facebook’s facial recognition feature, a day after Sophos pointed out that the social network might have reset users’ default settings for the feature.

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Meet Zac Moffatt, who took the reigns of Governor Mitt Romney’s digital media strategy last week, at the same time the candidate made his campaign for the White House official.

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Facebook posts mentioning Representative Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) are still going up at the rate of several per minute as of this writing. Yesterday afternoon, the Congressman confessed to sending pictures of a sexual nature via online outlets including Twitter, and then lying about doing so.

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Global protests organized via Facebook are becoming increasingly commonplace, with the latest protest coming from young Vietnamese Facebook users against China.

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Sometimes, having a higher profile than Twitter has its disadvantages, as Facebook found itself mentioned in a scandal it had absolutely nothing to do with over the weekend that pundits gave the chuckle-inducing name of Weinergate.

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Find out the winners and losers of the U.S. House Republican Conference’s New Media Challenge, round two.

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