Trump has taken to the social media site he owns for a total of 2,145 original posts since taking office in January ...

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Extreme posts – rife with angry, emotional language – gain the most traction. This aggressive and emotional form of ...

Counselors are urging foreign students applying to U.S. colleges to avoid certain topics online as the State Department ...

The use of social media is becoming a feature of political and civic engagement for many Americans. Some 60% of American adults use either social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter and a new ...

That included all forms of news, but a year on social media is where about 18% of adult Americans, or roughly one-in-five, now get their political news. According to Pew Research Center data ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. It’s election season, and I have people in my network asking me for my thoughts on how ...

Q. How has social media changed our politics? A. In a democracy, the right and ability of the people to be informed and to discuss the important issues of the day is vital. It is one of the ...

Between emotional appeals from teachers and extremist messaging on social media, my generation has been inundated with dangerous political rhetoric for almost half our lives. We don’t need FBI ...

2015-10-31T23:34:38-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/e0a/20151031043447001_hd.jpgShira Center moderated a discussion on the effects of social media on the 2016 ...

For those who are heavily interested in politics, social media offers an especially compelling environment for engaging with news, information and discussion about political issues. But although ...

An immediate emotional connection can, at best, deepen into a sustained engagement with the political process. But there’s a dark side to social media’s emotionalism. Trump’s popularity took ...