by Eric Lieberman The FBI has reportedly reached an agreement with a data analysis company to acquire information pertaining to people’s social media content. It’s set to sign a contract with Dataminr in order to obtain its Indicators and Warnings capability, “which will permit the FBI to search the complete Twitter firehose, in near real-time,…
by Micah J. Fleck President-Elect Donald Trump recently sent out a tweet to his followers on Twitter saying that he genuinely enjoyed the meeting with the President, his wife enjoyed a tea date with Michelle Obama, and that overall there was “great chemsitry.” According to The Hill: “A fantastic day in D.C. Met with President…
by Eric Lieberman Website likes Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, and many others are not working Friday morning, allegedly because unknown hackers attacked the servers of Dyn, which is a major domain name system (DNS) host. The attack is believed to be a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. DNS is the technical network that converts website address names…
by Eric Lieberman Social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are being criticized for giving users’ personal information to a company that supplies data to law enforcement. The tech corporations provided access to people’s data (specifically location) to Geofeedia, which is a developer and purveyor of a social media monitoring product. Geofeedia markets it services to police departments…
by Kody Fairfield The highlight coming out of the second presidential debate did not happen to be any substantive policy, or shocking revelation from the candidates. No, it happened to be, Ken Bone, one of the many undecided voters who questioned Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Bone, who was at the debate to help decide…
by Kody Fairfield After facing loud voices denouncing his behavior, numerous calls to step down, and a plethora of un-endorsements over the last week, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, is apparently feeling rather free. According to Politico, following a conference call made by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) to fellow Republican (GOP) legislators, where he explained…
by Kody Fairfield Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump, supposed representative of the party for family values, has taken his war with former Miss Universe Alicia Machado of Venezuela, to a new level. On Friday, Trump on Twitter called Machado, “disgusting,” and encouraged people to “check out her sex tape.” It seems like Trump’s attacks on Machado may have been triggered…
By Kody Fairfield It appears that former Republican Presidential nominee, Jeb Bush, may be more than just talk in his potential support for Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson. At least if you believe what Washington Bureau Chief from New York Daily News, Cameron Joseph. On Thursday afternoon, Joseph tweeted about an exclusive from the New York Daily News, that Bush “repeatedly…
by Kody Fairfield It would be fair to say the Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein has gusto. Having been taken into custody on her campaign trail for attempting to crash the Presidential debates last Monday, and being issued an arrest warrant after a civil disobedience display in North Dakota as proof, if Stein thinks an action will help bring…
By Kevin Batts Donald Trump Jr., the presidential candidate’s son, is running a tight race for worst Donald Trump surrogate. He proved once again why he might go down as the worst surrogate after presenting this insanely moronic tweet, equating Syrian refugees with a bowl of Skittles. The analogy seemed innocent enough, especially for the…