Cutting Off Politwoops, Twitter Follows The Needs Of Politicians, Not Public Interest

The executives who once called Twitter the “free-speech wing of the free-speech party” don’t work at Twitter anymore. It shows. In June, Twitter abruptly cut off access to Politwoops, a website operated by the Sunlight Foundation that preserved deleted tweets sent by elected officials in the United States. Then last weekend, Twitter dropped the hammer on Politwoops' sister services, cutting off access to

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If You’re Trying To Join ISIS Through Twitter, The FBI Probably Knows About It

WASHINGTON — Twitter has been “very cooperative” with FBI agents looking into individuals affiliated with the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations that use the social network to organize and inspire people within the U.S. to commit terrorist acts, FBI Director James Comey said Thursday. Comey said many terrorist recruits first interact with overseas terrorists on Twitter. Affidavits filed by

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Hillary Clinton Joins Instagram With Pantsuit Joke

Looks like Hillary Clinton is getting ready to share more with the Internet. The Democratic presidential hopeful opened an Instagram account on Wednesday, joining over 300 million active users on the photo-sharing app. Clinton’s inaugural post featured a rack of red, white and blue pantsuits — her fashion trademark — with the caption, “Hard choices,” the title of her 2014

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House Rep Says Congress Uses Tech Like The DMV, But Should Be Like Uber

Interacting with Congress has more in common with going to the DMV than opening an Uber app. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wa.) thinks that’s a problem. The chair of the House Republican Conference told the 2015 Personal Democracy Forum in New York City on Friday that the Congress of the future will embrace technology the same way the private sector

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Politwoops’ Demise Means Less Transparency In Politics

Politwoops, the Sunlight Foundation project that curated deleted tweets from politicians, has been stopped in its tracks. In a post on its site Thursday, titled “Eulogy for Politwoops,” Sunlight Foundation President Christopher Gates explained that Twitter suddenly revoked the group’s access to its API, or application programming interface, which was used to tap into the database of tweets. The most

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