President Donald Trump pushed back Sunday on a Washington Post report that described White House chief of staff John Kelly as increasingly frustrated and powerless, tweeting that the article "isn’t true" and that the paper is "far more fiction than fact." "Story after story is made up garbage — more like a poorly written novel than good reporting," the president wrote on Twitter. "Always quoting sources (not names), many of which don’t exist. Story on John Kelly isn’t true, just another hit job!"Story Continued Below The Post's story about Kelly, published online on Saturday, is based on interviews with 16 "administration officials, outside advisers and presidential confidants," many of whom spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity. Among the details reported: Kelly and the president have had heated shouting matches, including over the naming of Kelly's then-top deputy Kirstjen Nielsen as Homeland Security secretary after Kelly left the department to join … [Read more...] about Trump: Washington Post article about Kelly not ‘true’
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Delingpole: Twitter CEO Praises Article Calling For New ‘Civil War’ in Which Republicans Are Destroyed
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has endorsed an article calling for the Republican party to be wiped out in the U.S. for at least a couple of generations and replaced by a de facto one-party state controlled by well-meaning Democrats. According to the article’s author – another liberal tech CEO called Peter Leyden – the Republican party is now so morally indefensible on every level that it is equivalent to the Confederacy in the Civil War, which had to be defeated because it was on the “wrong side of history.”Leyden writes: Let’s just say what needs to be said: The Republican Party over the past 40 years has maneuvered itself into a position where they are the bad guys on the wrong side of history. For a long time, they have been able to hide this fact through a sophisticated series of veils, invoking cultural voodoo that fools a large enough number of Americans to stay in the game. However, Donald Trump has laid waste to that sophistication and has given … [Read more...] about Delingpole: Twitter CEO Praises Article Calling For New ‘Civil War’ in Which Republicans Are Destroyed
Facebook will give all US users helpful context about articles shared in News Feed
Facebook is now expanding a test it started last year to all US users, and the result will be more background information and a useful overview of the publishers and articles you see appear in your News Feed — after the meaningful stuff from friends and family, of course. “We’re making it easy for people to view context about an article, including the publisher’s Wikipedia entry, related articles on the same topic, information about how many times the article has been shared on Facebook, where [it has] been shared, as well as an option to follow the publisher’s page,” the company said in a blog post. To see these details, tap the “about this article” bubble that’s located between an article’s image and headline. Facebook will also note if a publisher lacks a Wikipedia entry, which “can also be helpful context” in its own way. After all, how credible can an article be if the company behind it lacks enough standing … [Read more...] about Facebook will give all US users helpful context about articles shared in News Feed
Web traffic from Chrome’s article recommendations increased 2,100% in 2017
Over a year ago, Google added article recommendations to the New Tab Page on Chrome for Android. Even though it cluttered up the once-clean page, it has quickly become a major source of traffic for many websites. According to NiemanLab, traffic from Chrome's New Tab Page increased a whopping 2,100% last year. The data comes from Chartbeat, a content intelligence company often used as an alternative to Google Analytics. According to the company, Chrome's 'Articles for you' (the recommended links) is one of the fastest-growing sources of traffic on the web. In the beginning of 2017, it drove 15 million visits per month across Chartbeat's network. By the end of the year, that increased to 341 million. It's not hard to see why the recommended articles are driving so much traffic. Chrome is the most popular browser on the world's most popular operating system, and Google's algorithms are great at guessing what content you would be interested in. As you can see on the above chart, traffic … [Read more...] about Web traffic from Chrome’s article recommendations increased 2,100% in 2017
Facebook blocked a newspaper article about police brutality
If you tried to share a New York Daily News article about police brutality on Facebook today, you may have run into trouble. The article was blocked from sharing on Facebook for much of the afternoon, with some users receiving a message that the content had been blocked because it “includes content that other people have reported as abusive.” The Verge confirmed the block shortly after noon ET. Facebook prevented the article from being scraped by the company’s link tools, and also stopped the URL from being shared. Other Daily News articles were unaffected. Our tests seemed to indicate spam issues, with the error message reading: “Posts that look like spam according to our community guidelines are blocked on Facebook and can’t be shared.” The block has since been lifted and seems to have only lasted a few hours. Reached by The Verge, a Facebook representative said the article was mistakenly listed as spam as a result of an automation error. … [Read more...] about Facebook blocked a newspaper article about police brutality