Cadie Thompson, CNBCNovember 29, 2012 14:55

President Barack Obama is pushing his "fiscal cliff" plan with a famililar campaigning strategy: social media. The White House launched a new Twitter hashtag Wednesday in an effort to encourage Americans to express their support for Obama's plan to extend the George W. Bush-era tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of the year, for middle-class Americans.

Tweet at your own risk — Bolivia’s Big Brother could be watching

Simeon TegelNovember 2, 2012 00:17

LIMA, Peru — Bolivian cybernauts are up in arms at suggestions by high officials in President Evo Morales’ administration that it may regulate social media. Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera floated the idea that online critics could be held accountable. But the president has backed away from crushing digital dissent.

Anti-US protests and the challenges of '21st century statecraft'

Lizzy TomeiSeptember 25, 2012 17:56

In a speech on Tuesday, President Obama touched on the realities of information-sharing technologies playing a wide role in world affairs. "At a time when anyone with a cell phone can spread offensive views around the world with the click of a button, the notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete. The question, then, is how we respond."

Menshn 'Twitter-killer' launches in the US

Adam Taylor, Business InsiderJuly 6, 2012 16:49

Two weeks ago saw the launch of a new social networking site — Menshn — that sought to change the way conversations work online. At the time, the site's co-founder, British Member of Parliament Louise Mensch, told TechCrunch's UK editor Mike Butcher that she had decided to found the site in a bid to create a better system for debate than Twitter. The self-described "obsessive user of social media" (she currently has over 60,000 Twitter followers herself) was sick of the off-topic tweets she saw, and wanted a better way to follow the topics she wanted than the chaos of hashtags.

Al Jazeera Twitter account hacked by Bashar al-Assad's supporters

Jessica PhelanJuly 5, 2012 13:33

In a string of tweets, the hacker or hackers ask The Guardian's editors if they know they're "participating in violence in Syria," and accuse Al Jazeera of "fabricating another child martyr."

Stacey LeascaJune 5, 2012 14:11

Are Facebook's days numbered? (VIDEO)

Eric Jackson, founder of Ironfire Capital, believes Facebook is close to its demise.

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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the opening keynote address at the f8 Developer Conference April 21, 2010 in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan/AFP/Getty Images)

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Eric Jackson, founder of Ironfire Capital, believes Facebook is close to its demise.

Alex LeffMay 4, 2012 17:32

Does Chavez govern by Twitter?

Venezuela's president tweets from Cuba to announce multimillion-dollar state expenditures.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's Twitter handle, @chavezcandanga, turned 2 in April, with over 2.8 million followers. Tweets seem to be among Chavez's favorite media on which to announce big government news. (JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)

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Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said he approved $500 million to revamp the naval infantry. Nice hunk of cash. That was just one in a long list of announcements that Chavez has made recently — on Twitter.

Chavez is battling cancer and his frequent absences — for radiation treatment in Cuba — are fanning speculation that his rule could soon come to an end.

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