Business Insider: A JPMorgan bot analyzed 14,000 Trump tweets and found they’re having an increasingly sharp impact on markets. “JPMorgan created a tracker to monitor the impact of Trump’s tweets on markets, and the bank said it found ‘strong evidence’ that the president’s tweets ‘increasingly moved US rates markets immediately after publication.'”
Donald Trump
Wired: Trump Tweeted a Sensitive Photo. Internet Sleuths Decoded It
Wired: Trump Tweeted a Sensitive Photo. Internet Sleuths Decoded It. “For many outside experts, the only thing more intriguing than the president sharing sensitive military intelligence was the mystery of the technology that created the image…. Within hours of Trump’s tweet, a handful of amateur satellite trackers had not only determined that the photo was taken by a spy satellite, they had figured out which satellite had taken the photo.”
CNET: Google denies Trump’s accusations of voter manipulation
CNET: Google denies Trump’s accusations of voter manipulation. “Google denied accusations made on Monday by President Donald Trump that the search giant ‘manipulated’ millions of voters against him in the 2016 election. Google said Trump was referring to an old report claiming to prove that it generated at least 2.6 million votes for Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton, but said the report has been ‘debunked since it was made.'”
Reuters: Trump, without evidence, accuses Google of ‘very illegal’ action ahead of election
Reuters: Trump, without evidence, accuses Google of ‘very illegal’ action ahead of election . “U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday stepped up his accusations against Google, claiming without offering evidence that the technology company worked to subvert his 2016 presidential campaign and warning he was watching it ‘very closely’ ahead of the 2020 election.”
Donald Trump’s Tweets Are Influencing Anti-Muslim Sentiments: Study (The Wire)
The Wire: Donald Trump’s Tweets Are Influencing Anti-Muslim Sentiments: Study. “Over 27 years, the number of hate crimes, predominantly in the form of vandalism, against Muslims in the US reportedly increased in areas with higher social media usage and with pre-existing hate groups and Republican majorities. A potential driver of these anti-Muslim sentiments: Donald Trump’s Twitter feed.”
Ars Technica: Trump’s Twitter blocks violate First Amendment rights, appeals court affirms
Ars Technica: Trump’s Twitter blocks violate First Amendment rights, appeals court affirms. “It’s one thing for most of us to block Twitter users who annoy us, but it’s a violation of those users’ First Amendment rights for the president to do so, a federal appeals court confirmed. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Tuesday issued an opinion supporting an earlier federal court ruling that as long as Donald Trump is a public official, he cannot block people (which prevents them from reading his feed or responding to his comments) he disagrees with on Twitter.”
EurekAlert: Trump’s tweets reveal hidden unity between Democrats, Republicans
EurekAlert: Trump’s tweets reveal hidden unity between Democrats, Republicans. “Democrats and Republicans may stand on opposite ends of the political spectrum, but when it comes to President Donald Trump’s tweets, they have more in common than meets the eye. Both parties disapprove of Trump’s tweets that insult people or contain false information, and they like language that supports the military or shares condolences, regardless of their attitudes toward the president, according to a new University at Buffalo study published this month in the Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Web and Social Media.”
