Communications Major

Inside the alternate reality of the president’s Twitter account, where he absorbs and amplifies a noxious stream of disinformation.

Barack Obama's tweet condemning racism following the violent far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has become the most-liked in Twitter history.

A late night "butt tweet" freaks out America.

We’re witnessing the stirrings of a national popular movement aimed at defeating the policies of the president.

On Thursday night, Trump's account was briefly deactivated by a rogue customer support employee on their last day of work at Twitter. The fact that a single Twitter employee could shutdown the account of a major public figure without oversight raises serious questions about the site's security.

President Trump turned his morning tweetstorm about the travel ban into a Facebook video and the result was ... not good. It seems you can now create a "video" from tweets and old campaign photos. Who needs PowerPoint!?

The term "troll" is now widely used to mean "a nasty person on the Internet," but it's worth keeping in mind its more specific, original meaning: someone who seeks to provoke outrage for their own amusement. This is, often as not, done through weaponizing insincerity: pretending to be something they're not, or to care about an issue in order to upset those who do. A classic example would be someone posting steak recipes on a vegan message board. His personal views on veganism are irrelevant – all that matters is his desire to upset the people on that particular forum and the pleasure he derives from it.

Whoops! A so-called "twitter rally" in support of the President quickly turned into a Trump "bash".