Iran’s Protest Goes Viral

Staff / Truthdig Jun 16, 2009 Iranian officials have cut off key communication conduits within the country and barred access to foreign news broadcasts as election protests rage on. But protesters have found ways to get information by other means: They have turned to social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

China Blocks Popular Web Sites Before Tiananmen Anniversary

Staff / Truthdig Jun 2, 2009 Two days before the 20th anniversary of the brutal military crackdown on student protesters in Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government has blocked popular Web sites aimed at the young, including Twitter, Flickr and Hotmail. It also has blocked message boards on some 6,000 sites associated with colleges and universities. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Propaganda 2.0

Staff / Truthdig May 27, 2009 Sure, Obama and McCain (well, actually their staffs) joined micro-blogging site Twitter for propaganda purposes. But now the nuke-happy and secretive North Koreans are getting in on the Web 2.0 revolution, offering an interesting state-controlled glimpse into the isolated country. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

White House All Atwitter

Staff / Truthdig May 2, 2009 It's not entirely clear how the White House joining the cyber-ranks of MySpace, Facebook and Twitter will serve to make the American government more "transparent" and "efficient," but perhaps micro-blogging will save our democracy or maybe we'll get to hear about what Joe Biden had for lunch. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Creepy’ Karl Rove on Meghan McCain’s Twitter Trail

Staff / Truthdig Apr 21, 2009 You know a social networking trend has gone too far when: (1) Karl Rove has caught on, and (2) Karl Rove attempts to "friend" you -- or, in Meghan McCain's unenviable case, follow you on Twitter. Ew. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Not With a Bang but a Twitter

Staff / Truthdig Apr 15, 2009 Can plugging into online social networks via Twitter or Facebook lead to some kind of computer-aided moral decline en masse? A study out of the University of Southern California's Brain and Creativity Institute seems to suggest that this may be an imminent side effect of living in information-overloaded societies. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Twitterer

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Benjamin Netanyahu We Can Believe In

Staff / Truthdig Nov 15, 2008 It doesn't take a media analyst (or knowledge of Hebrew) to detect the obvious similarities between the Web site for Benjamin Netanyahu, the conservative candidate for prime minister in Israel, and that of America's presidential sweepstakes winner Barack Obama. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Republicans Go Web 2.0 for House Protest

Staff / Truthdig Aug 5, 2008 House Republicans are camping out in the Capitol, trying to pressure an up-or-down vote on offshore drilling. The lights and the C-SPAN cameras are off, but a number of lawmakers have turned to new media sites such as YouTube and even Twitter to microblog their dissent. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )