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With fake news a hot topic following the election, The New Yorker has taken steps to make sure people aren’t fooled by The Borowitz Report it runs on its web site. Last week, the magazine changed the tagline of Andy Borowitz’s popular online satirical humor column, which consistently tops The New Yorker’s trending chart, from…
Even when they voted, more people bypassed the main event than usual. Scott Shackford|Dec. 14, 2016 4:15 pm Piero Oliosi/Polaris/NewscomWe already know that one of the predictable consequences of having two unpopular major party candidates—Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton—led to poor voter turnout (when presented as a percentage of the voting population). One of the…
It wasn’t so much a reckoning as a reboot. The nation’s top tech executives couldn’t know what to expect when they headed to Trump Tower in Manhattan on Wednesday for what President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team had billed as an innovation “summit.” They had reason to fear an ambush. But if Trump holds grudges against Silicon…
“If you want to shut this down and you actually love the country enough to have the peaceful transition in our great democracy between the Obama administration and the Trump administration, there are a couple people in pretty prominent positions, one is named Obama, one is named Hillary Clinton, since his people are trying to…
Google Microdata Mobile only ad Article “Cover” Legislators passed a slate of bills to sharply reduce the power of the incoming governor, over the heated objections of Democrats and hundreds of protestors. Google Metadata Protestors demonstrate against the North Carolina General Assembly on Thursday.Gerry Broome / AP START “MORE ON” SINGLE STORY BOX v. 2…
In early July, a website made to look like a real news organization published what would prove to be one of the biggest fake news hits of the US election. WTOE5News.com was barely two weeks old when it published the hoax story, “Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Donald Trump for President, Releases Statement.” It improbably…
Choking down “flaccid, gray Szechuan dumplings” and dealing with bathrooms that “transport diners to the experience of desperately searching for toilet paper at a Venezuelan grocery store” were uncomfortable enough. But Vanity Fair reporter Tina Nguyen feared a more severe round of indigestion after her Wells-ian skewering of the Trump Grill attracted the Twitter ire…
Donald Trump was officially elected president Monday, after the majority of electors in the Electoral College voted for Trump when they met at state capitols across the country. Trump passed the 270 Electoral College-vote threshold needed to secure the White House shortly after 5:30 p.m. Eastern, when Texas voted, according to the Associated Press. Trump is…
Tracking the Electoral College Vote By KIERSTEN SCHMIDT and WILSON ANDREWS UPDATED 5:30 P.M. ET We’re keeping a tally as members of the Electoral College vote to elect Donald J. Trump to the presidency. Six electors declined to vote for their party’s nominee, tied with the 1808 election for the most of all time. Related…