The President is right in trying to close loopholes: Tax evasion and avoidance by multinationals is a good place to start, and property taxes, especially on idle land can trigger wider reforms in the economy, as would scrapping wasteful tax exemptions. Imposing more taxes on the same band of small … …

For up to a few weeks, a Twitter button at the bottom of Rick Saccone's official congressional campaign website linked to a fake account under the name “Patriot Saccone,” with posts espousing extreme positions, anti-gay rhetoric and criticism of students who spoke out in the aftermath of the Parkland, … Read …

Opioid epidemic While the platforms are reluctant to police content the ads are “insidious threats.” says the FDA commissioner. (Image: Shutterstock). The top U.S. drug regulator wants social-media sites including Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. to do more to stop illegal online sales of opioids that are … Read More

The excellent Supper Mario Broth—a blog dedicated to weird and fun tidbits of Nintendo history—has had its Twitter account flagged as “sensitive” after it … Yet Twitter's algorithms, designed to catch offensive imagery without the need for human intervention, have decided that it's something naughty. Read More

The fresh disclosures about the Cambridge Analytica affair are dismaying for Facebook Inc., and they were getting a lot of deserved attention on Wednesday. But what happened at the shadowy political consulting firm is largely about Facebook's past. The company made other changes Wednesday that … Read More

Amid growing pressure to remove bad actors from Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that the company would likely release more information about problematic content posted to the service during elections. But to ensure the accuracy of the data, Zuckerberg said, the reports will likely … Read More

Cambridge Analytica is refuting a report by Facebook today that said Cambridge Analytica improperly attained data on up to 87 million users. Instead, it claims it only “licensed data for no more than 30 million people” from Dr. Aleksandr Kogan's research company Global Science Research. It also claims … Read More

CTA to keep train station heaters on after social media uproar. The CTA typically shuts off power to its train station's heaters on April 1, but has decided to extend the warmth until higher temperatures arrive. | photo from the CTA's Twitter account. by Jordan Owen · @byjordanowen | email. …

Social media commentary expressed outrage at the man's release. But City of Greater Geraldton Mayor Shane Van Styn suggested the outrage was overblown. Responding to the comments from his private Facebook account, he compared the case and the reaction to the man who killed a Midwest man … Read More

He'd gotten wound up before from the conservative outrage and news he was reading. But this time, Skaar's brain overdosed on this unfiltered intoxicant. He found himself succumbing to the near-apocalyptic vitriol being shared with him on social media—like, really, was the state of politics, the economy, … Read More