October 28, 2023

ABC News: The White House and Google launch a new virtual tour with audio captions, Spanish translation

ABC News: The White House and Google launch a new virtual tour with audio captions, Spanish translation. “Can’t come to Washington? Couldn’t get a ticket to tour the White House? Don’t worry. The White House, Google Maps and Google Arts & Culture launched a new virtual tour of the famous mansion on Friday, which is also National Civics Day. With a computer or smartphone, users will be able to spend time zooming in on all of the rooms that they would have seen had they been able to go on an in-person tour.”

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September 9, 2023

Reuters: Court eases curbs on Biden administration’s contacts with social media firms

Reuters: Court eases curbs on Biden administration’s contacts with social media firms. “A federal appeals court on Friday ruled the White House, the FBI and top health officials may not ‘coerce or significantly encourage’ social-media companies to remove content the Biden administration considers misinformation, including about COVID-19. But the three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals narrowed much of an injunction issued by a Louisiana judge that restricted Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration from communicating with social-media companies.”

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June 27, 2023

Bloomberg: Who’s Visiting the White House? The Logs Include 300,000 Names and Are Still Incomplete

Bloomberg: Who’s Visiting the White House? The Logs Include 300,000 Names and Are Still Incomplete. “The records detail more than 300,000 visitors from January 2021 through February 2023, including lawmakers such as West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, whose vote Biden was seeking for legislation, and business titans like JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon. However, a Bloomberg News analysis of the data found duplications, anomalies and missing names.”

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June 13, 2023

NEW Digital Exhibit: Historic White House Wedding Fashion and Design (PR Newswire) (PRESS RELEASE)

PR Newswire: NEW Digital Exhibit: Historic White House Wedding Fashion and Design (PRESS RELEASE). “The White House Historical Association debuts a new digital exhibit today in partnership with New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Something Old, Something New: Eight First Daughters’ Fashionable White House Weddings, examines the wedding fashion and décor choices of eight first daughters.”

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April 25, 2023

White House Historical Association: New Digital Library Exhibit “Slavery and Freedom in the White House Collection”

White House Historical Association: New Digital Library Exhibit “Slavery and Freedom in the White House Collection”. “The White House Historical Association debuted a new virtual exhibit today, , that explores slavery’s influence on the ideas, people and movements that shaped the White House through close examination and interpretation of 21 objects in the White House Collection.”

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October 13, 2022

NPR: The White House is turning to TikTok stars to take its message to a younger audience

NPR: The White House is turning to TikTok stars to take its message to a younger audience. “When President Biden hosted a celebration with lawmakers on the South Lawn last month to mark the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, Democrats’ signature spending package, there was an unique group of guests joining them. More than 20 influencers — content creators with devoted followers on platforms like TikTok, Instagram and YouTube — received special invitations.”

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September 1, 2022

Washington Post: The Biden White House gets feisty on Twitter

Washington Post: The Biden White House gets feisty on Twitter. “‘We’ve never hesitated to call out hypocrisy, and we’re not going to stop now,’ said White House spokeswoman Alexandra LaManna…. The White House also recently hired Megan Coyne as deputy director of platforms in its Office of Digital Strategy. Coyne garnered widespread attention among Democrats for bringing humor and punchiness to a New Jersey state-run account with tweets that went viral.”

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December 4, 2021

Engadget: Tour the White House’s Christmas decorations on Google Street View

Engadget: Tour the White House’s Christmas decorations on Google Street View. “You can now take a tour of the White House’s halls decked with Christmas trees and other decor fit for the season — virtually, that is. Google first added the official residence of the President of the United States to the places you can visit on Street View almost a decade ago. But now, you can take a virtual walk of its premises to see how the place has been decorated.”

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August 14, 2021

New York Times: Inside the White House-Facebook Rift Over Vaccine Misinformation

New York Times: Inside the White House-Facebook Rift Over Vaccine Misinformation . “In March, Andy Slavitt, then a top pandemic adviser for President Biden, called Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president for global affairs, and delivered an ominous warning. For many weeks, Mr. Slavitt and other White House officials had been meeting with Facebook to urge the company to stop the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus vaccines. Many Americans who refused to get vaccinated had cited false stories they read on Facebook, including theories that the shots could lead to infertility, stillborn babies and autism. Mr. Slavitt and other officials felt that executives were deflecting blame and resisting requests for information.”

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April 27, 2021

White House: How to Watch the Livestream of President Biden’s Address to the Joint Session of Congress

White House: How to Watch the Livestream of President Biden’s Address to the Joint Session of Congress. “The President will address a Joint Session of Congress at the United States Capitol on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 9pm EDT. The White House livestream will feature supplemental information from senior Administration officials as part of our enhanced viewing experience. The White House feed will include ASL interpretation for accessibility.”

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April 1, 2021

Politico: Federal watchdog calls for centralized Covid-19 data website

Politico: Federal watchdog calls for centralized Covid-19 data website. “Federal health agencies need to be more transparent about critical Covid-19 data, particularly on race and ethnicity and infections at nursing homes, the Government Accountability Office said Wednesday. The watchdog recommended those steps as part of its call for a sweeping overhaul of federal data on Covid-19, based on its probe of efforts to collect and analyze pandemic statistics across agencies.”

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March 28, 2021

Politico: ‘Time is not on our side’ — Biden navigates cyber attacks without a cyber czar

Politico: ‘Time is not on our side’ — Biden navigates cyber attacks without a cyber czar. “The failure to fill the role, which would be responsible for coordinating the entire U.S. government’s defensive cyber operations, comes as the new administration grapples with how to kick suspected Russian and Chinese hackers out of federal cyber infrastructure following two major breaches. And it lays bare the challenges in setting up a brand new agency that could encroach upon some power centers in the White House, particularly the National Security Council.”

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