Political campaigns are about to get the Carl Icahn treatment that tech companies have grown oh-so-used to. Today, the activist investor said he has some strong opinions he’d like to share with the 2016 Presidential candidates—but of course he does.
“I’m going to be doing a whole presentation about what I think about the debt and about the market,” Icahn told a group of reporters gathered at a press conference for Icahn’s portfolio company Lyft. The billionaire was light on details about his proposals, but he did admit to having a soft spot for Donald Trump.
“I do think a lot of the things he says has to be done in this country or we’re going to have real problems,” he said. “We may have them anyway.”
Icahn added that Trump “hit a very important nerve in this country.”
“The arument he’s not a politician is in his favor, not against his favor,” Icahn said. But when asked whether he would accept the role of Secretary of Treasury, as Trump has suggested in the past, Icahn said he would decline: “I have my day job.”
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Twitter has been working hard this election season to prove its worth to presidential campaigns. Now, with a lot of help from interim CEO Jack Dorsey’s other company Square, it’s about to be worth a lot more.
This morning, Twitter announced it’s teaming up with Square to allow Twitter users to make a donation directly through Twitter. The goal is to remove some of the friction would-be donors face, by putting a big blue “Contribute” button right in their Twitter feed.
To sign up, campaigns must first create a Square Cash business account and email Square. This creates a so-called $Cashtag (essentially a username for Square Cash) that campaigns can Tweet out, automatically generating a Contribute button in user feeds. Twitter users who click the button will be able to input their donation amount, as well as personal information required by the FEC, like their names and addresses.
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For campaigns, constantly looking for more lightweight ways to attract new donors, this new tool could be powerful. Sure, users could always click a link and be redirected to the campaign’s donation page on their website, but containing the action within the app removes one additional barrier for people, particularly people who are accessing Twitter on mobile.
Figuring out a way to make mobile donations more seamless has been a challenge for campaigns, ever since the FEC approved mobile donations via text back in 2012. That’s because the wireless carriers that enable these transactions often charge campaigns a percentage of the donation. By soliciting donations through Twitter, campaigns can circumvent the fees carriers charge, while still reaching donors where they’re increasingly spending their time: on their phones.
As Jenna Golden, Twitter’s head of political advertising sales wrote in a blog post announcing the news, this is an effective way “for campaigns to execute tailored digital fundraising, in real time, on the platform where Americans are already talking about the 2016 election and the issues they are passionate about.”
This move is not just significant for campaigns, but also of course for Square and Twitter, which Dorsey has been running side by side since taking over as interim-CEO of Twitter earlier this year. Despite recent calls for him to be chosen as the permanent CEO of Twitter, in June Twitter’s board made it fairly clear that they would allow that to happen if, and only if, he stepped down at Square.
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Jeb 2016
Jeb Bush has been cozying up to Silicon Valley this election season, but his newly announced cybersecurity platform isn’t likely to win him many fans within the tech industry. In a lengthy post detailing his plans today, the former governor advocated for increased government surveillance, writing, “The National Security Agency and Cyber Command are on the front lines of defending the United States against cyberthreats. We must stop demonizing these quiet intelligence professionals and start giving them the tools they need.” But Bush is light on details as to what those tools would be.
Insert much gnashing of teeth by American tech companies and privacy advocates here.
In the post-Edward Snowden era, tech giants like Apple and Microsoft have become increasingly vocal about the need to protect user data from the prying eyes of the government. Meanwhile, privacy experts have panned proposed legislation like the CISA Security Bill, insisting that it creates too many surveillance loopholes for the government. Bush, on the other hand, argues in his new proposal that the President should push Senate Democrats who oppose the bill “to allow this bill to come to the Senate floor for a vote.”
Bush is likely all too aware of the reaction these suggestions might receive from the tech world. That may explain why he also included a promise that seems out of place in a plan about cybersecurity: to “remove barriers to innovation in the tech industry.” This appears to be Bush’s way of softening the blow from the rest of his platform.
Bush is far from alone in this approach to cybersecurity. During last month’s Republican debates, former HP CEO Carly Fiorina emphasized the importance of tearing down the so-called “cyberwalls” that tech companies put up to protect themselves from government requests for data. And new Jersey governor Chris Christie and Florida Senator Marco Rubio have also called for increased intelligence capabilities.
For privacy concerned technologists in search of a conservative candidate, at least there’s always Rand Paul.
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Brian Finke
Update: 9:19 am ET 09/09/2015 Several hours after this story was published, John McAfee filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for President. He also launched an official campaign website.
If you didn’t think the 2016 election season could get any more batshit crazy than it already is, now, John McAfee—the self-described “eccentric millionaire,” who founded the anti-virus software company McAfee, and who once played Russian roulette with a loaded gun while WIRED writer Joshua Davis stood by—says he is considering joining the 2016 presidential race. But first, he says he’s hoping to persuade someone who is “smarter and more charismatic” than he is to run with his backing.
“I personally am still in a quandary about whether to run myself or find someone else for my party,” McAfee tells WIRED. “My advisors are pressing me to run.”
McAfee, who won’t name his advisors or his prospects for stand-ins, says he’s been mulling a run for some time at the urging of his online followers. “I have many thousands of emails saying please run for President,” he says. “It’s not something I would just choose to do on my own.”
But McAfee says he does believe the government is broken, largely because its leaders don’t understand technology as well as, well, he does. He points to the recent hacks of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and Homeland Security as proof.
“Things like this cannot happen or should not happen,” he says. “It’s clear that the leadership of our country is illiterate on the fundamental technology that supports everything in life for us now, that is cyber science, our smartphones, our military hardware, our communications.”
McAfee argues that the fact that the government is urging tech companies like Apple to create so-called “backdoors” into their systems that would allow the government to collect information on users is another sign that public servants just don’t get it. “That means allowing hackers easy access to anybody’s data,” he says.
The prospect of a President John McAfee may sound absurd to you. If it doesn’t, please recall that McAfee was once arrested in Guatemala after fleeing Belize, where he was wanted for questioning by local police for the murder of his neighbor. No charges were brought against him in the murder case, but McAfee’s backstory is still a tad colorful for politics, even in the age of Trump.
Yet the privacy arguments he’s making aren’t altogether unlike the ones that Apple and other tech companies have been lobbying for in Congress.
Like Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard professor who is running for president to push an agenda for campaign finance reform, McAfee seems far more concerned with having his voice heard on one particular issue than with taking a seat in the Oval Office.
Which may explain why McAfee is seeking a stand-in for his presidential run. He also said he didn’t want to discuss other elements of his platform until he, er, knows whether he or someone else is going to be candidate. That announcement should come within the next 48 hours, according to McAfee. As for whether Donald Trump’s surprising popularity had anything to do with his presidential ambitions, McAfee said, “I have great respect for the man but he has nothing to do with my decision to run.”
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Just noticed how well the Obama logo works for Trump with some simple color changes and rotation. pic.twitter.com/1r91SeXTDx
— Matthew Gordon (@ratherironic) September 2, 2015
Donald Trump’s official campaign logo—a banner reading “Make America Great Again!”—isn’t as typographically offensive as, say, Jeb’s logo. But it is pretty generic and, as far as logomarks go, not that adaptable. How on Earth will he ever get that banner on an app button for mobile?
Here’s an idea, from astute design observer Matthew Gordon in Boulder, Colo.: why not just co-opt Obama’s campaign logo and make it his own? The Obama logo, designed before the 2008 campaign by Sol Sender, depicts a new sun rising over rolling hills—a symbol of new beginnings and American optimism. If you just flip it upside down and paint it orange, though, you have a symbol of Trump himself—wispy golden mane and all. Sure, it’s a narcissistic logo for a presidential campaign. And yes, the idea is rife with copyright protection issues. But unconventional antics haven’t bothered Trump before.
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Rusean Pieternelle with his two sons. Hillary for America
Today, there will be no throwback photos of Bill or selfies with Kim Kardashian gracing Hillary Clinton’s Instagram account. Instead, the presidential hopeful’s 238,000 followers will get a glimpse inside a day in the life of Texan native Rusean Pieternelle, who will be taking over Clinton’s Instagram account throughout the day.
The Insta-stunt is meant to highlight the importance of Clinton’s so-called New College Compact, which aims to drive down the cost of higher education through, among other things, federal and state investment. According to a Clinton aide, “Pieternelle was chosen to operate the account because his experience coincides with Clinton’s focus on college affordability as a key part of her economic agenda.”
Pieternelle is a father of two, who went back to school at the age of 30 to expand his career options. “It’s always a choice between getting the experience to move forward but taking a pay cut, or staying put to try to make enough and pay off debt,” Pieternelle writes in a post that will go up later today. Clinton’s college affordability plan includes a call for scholarships and child care for student parents like Pieternelle.
This is just one of many examples of candidates experimenting with using Instagram in what is sure to be the most photographed election season in history. Earlier this week, Bobby Jindal began running political ads on the platform, and Instagram reports there are ads running from prospective candidates from both sides of the aisle, though it did not disclose who.
But while this is Clinton’s first Instagram takeover, her campaign has handed over the keys to one of her social media account’s before. In May, a business owner named Mary Jo Brown took over Clinton’s Twitter feed for the day, as a way of highlighting Clinton’s small business platform.
Hi there! I’m Mary Jo—a mom, small business owner, and Granite Stater—and I’m taking over this Twitter account today. Welcome to Portsmouth!
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 21, 2015
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Borrell
The days of the TV attack ad are far from over. But a new report from a group that tracks ad spending shows that digital ads may soon play just as important a role for political campaigns.
In 2016, political ad spending will reach a record high of $11.4 billion, 20 percent more than was spent back in 2012, according to Borrell Associates, a research firm. It’s a huge jump, but what’s more notable is just how that money will be spent. About $1 billion will be spent on digital media, a nearly 5,000 percent increase from the measly $22.25 million spent on digital ads back in 2008. And that’s only the beginning.
According to the report, spending on digital media by the time of the 2020 presidential election cycle will explode to nearly $3.3 billion dollars. That will still trail the current $8.5 billion spent on broadcast television but not by nearly as much.
More than half of the $1 billion budget in 2016 will be spent targeting social media sites, the report predicts. But even with such huge growth, these figures show just how far behind the political world is compared to the private sector. As the report notes, $1 billion is still roughly 9.5 percent of campaigns’ overall advertising budgets. In other industries, digital media often accounts for 30 to 50 percent of the money spent on ads.
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Donald Trump just made jury duty a whole lot less boring for some New Yorkers.
Trump reported to Manhattan Supreme Court this morning after saying this weekend that he was going to receive “no special treatment” fulfilling his civic duty. Of course, that may have been wishful thinking. After all, when the most talked-about presidential candidate of the election season is just a few seats away, what’s a self-respecting potential juror to do but Snapchat it for all the world to share?
Peter Hamby, Snapchat’s head of news, called attention to the sighting on Twitter:
YES! There is a Snapchatter in jury duty with @realDonaldTrump this morning pic.twitter.com/ucENDV3LmU
— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) August 17, 2015
One Snapchatter aside, it appears everyone else is giving Trump his privacy, because, you know, he really doesn’t like calling attention to himself.
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If you thought the debate over the US-Iran deal couldn’t get any more ludicrous than this Snapchat filter, then, my dear friend, you were sorely mistaken. For today, the White House’s own Iran Deal-themed Twitter account, @TheIranDeal, blew that Snapchat stunt straight out of the water. Or, shall we say, straight out of Compton.
Read it and weep, or sigh, or lament the sad state of political discourse. Pretty much however you decide to express your feelings about this brilliant mess below is okay by us.
.@BuzzFeed And thanks to the #IranDeal, Iran will be … pic.twitter.com/zEHN1EpEX7
— The Iran Deal (@TheIranDeal) August 13, 2015
Yep, that’s right. The White House just promoted the Iran Deal with an NWA meme. It’s just the latest example of how politicians are trying to tap younger supporters by pandering to them shamelessly, often to tragically ludicrous effect.
In a statement to Buzzfeed, which inspired the not-so-inspired “Straight outta …” meme, a White House official said, “To the extent this tweet reaches audiences that our more traditional tweets have not, it will have accomplished the intended objective, especially if it spurs them to learn more about the deal.”
In that case allow us to suggest another tweet for @TheIranDeal: “Remember when Kim dumped Kris for Kanye and it was a totally good idea and then they had Nori? Aw! And now Kim’s pregnant again? Yay! So, the Iran Deal’s gonna be just like that!”
That’s more than 140 characters you say? There’s always Instagram!
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Campaign season took on a new level of strange today—and you know it’s already been pretty darn strange—when Hillary Clinton’s social media team asked followers on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to explain how student debt makes them feel in three words or less. Well, not exactly words.
Answer in the comments! Under Hillary’s college plan, every borrower can enroll in a program where they never have to pay more than 10 percent of their income per month to pay down their loans, with college debt forgiven after 20 years or 10 years for graduates that pursue careers in national service.
A photo posted by Hillary Clinton (@hillaryclinton) on
Aug 12, 2015 at 11:03am PDT
The stunt was a way to promote Clinton’s newly announced college affordability plan. And it only sort of worked. Some people were genuine:
@HillaryClinton — Nini Tran (@NINIIIXOXO) August 12, 2015
@sikander
— elizabeth tobey (@dahanese) August 12, 2015
Some were genuinely insulted:
.@HillaryClinton You know what people who went to college can use? Words. — Louisa (@LouisatheLast) August 12, 2015
You guys know we can use emojis on occasion but then also have articulate discussions about economic matters, right? @HillaryClinton
— Brooklyn Middleton (@BklynMiddleton) August 12, 2015
And some were genuinely incoherent:
.@HillaryClinton — Dr. Ed (@ICUDrEd) August 12, 2015
, @HillaryClinton.
— ⚡️ (@ginabuentiempo) August 12, 2015
Emoji: for when you’re truly at a loss for words.
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Hillary Clinton speaks to journalists after a town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire, July 28, 2015. Melina Mara/The Washington Post/Getty Images
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has agreed to hand over her private email server to the FBI for examination after government investigators claim that two emails that passed through it contained classified information.
That info referenced satellite images and electronic communications, according to the Washington Post, and was reportedly found in emails originating from the CIA.
Although the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency says the information was classified, a State Department spokesman disputed this, saying that the top-secret designation was merely a recommendation and that the CIA information had not been marked classified at the time the emails were distributed. What’s more, the official said, State Department staffers had “circulated these e-mails on unclassified systems in 2009 and 2011″ before some of them were forwarded to Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time.
The public learned in March that Clinton had maintained a private email server from her New York home during her tenure as secretary of state throughout President Obama’s first term in office.
“I saw it as a matter of convenience,” she said at the time. Because she couldn’t send personal emails on her government-issued phone, she set up the server using clintonemail.com as the domain to conduct personal correspondence.
Clinton has been accused by Republican lawmakers of using the server to hide her activity as secretary and bypass public records requests. She resisted handing over the server in March saying that it contained personal correspondence with her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
“I believe I have met all of my responsibilities, and the server will remain private,” she told reporters in March.
She did, however, turn over two thumb drives to the State Department containing about 30,000 emails that she said held work-related information. It was among a sampling of about 40 of these emails that investigators say they found the two emails containing classified information. The two thumb drives will now be turned over to the FBI for examination, along with the email server.
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Lawrence Lessig. Jimi Celeste/Patrick McMullan/Sipa USA/AP
Harvard Law School professor Larry Lessig has announced a pretty bonkers plan to extract big money from politics, and it might involve him running for president. You know, if no one better comes along.
I’ve launched the committee to explore a run to be a referendum president. Read all about it: http://t.co/iXiScrVSpJ
— Lessig (@lessig) August 11, 2015
By “referendum president,” Lessig means a president that runs on one issue and one issue only. In this case, the issue is campaign finance reform. Last year, Lessig launched a Super PAC called Mayday PAC that backed candidates who supported these reforms. Now, he’s taking that idea one step further.
It’ll work like this: Lessig is asking the public to contribute to a crowdfunding campaign to end what Lessig calls a “rigged system.” If the campaign raises $1 million by Labor Day, and if none of the Democratic candidates agree to make campaign finance reform a core issue in their campaigns, then Lessig will run for president. If he wins, he promises to serve for as long as it takes to pass reforms, before handing the reigns over to his vice president.
“No doubt, there should be someone better than me,” he says in the video—a phrase that has most certainly never been uttered in a presidential campaign announcement video. “This campaign is not about a person. It’s about a principle—an American principle that we must reclaim.”
This campaign isn’t really about winning the presidency, either. Instead, it’s about bringing the issue of corporate involvement in government to the forefront. “Until it is fixed,” Lessig says, “no sensible reform is even possible.”
Check out Lessig’s full video below:
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Who did you watch the debates with last night? Probably not Hillary Clinton! Or Kimye, for that matter. Earlier in the evening, Kardashian posted saying she was on her way to meet the “our next President” and hoped she would get a selfie with her, and lo and behold:
I got my selfie!!! I really loved hearing her speak & hearing her goals for our country! #HillaryForPresident
A photo posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on
Aug 6, 2015 at 8:40pm PDT
It wasn’t just a private party of three, of course. This was Justin Bieber manager Scooter Braun’s fundraiser for Clinton, and other famous guests included Usher, Kris Jenner, and Jason Collins. Clearly, this year’s election trend is a selfie with Hillary. Or rather, a Hillfie.
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Seth Borenstein is a longtime science reporter for The Associated Press. On the bright side, Seth, at least that means the candidates couldn’t get it all wrong.
Spent the last two hours watching GOP debate to factcheck on science, climate & environment issues. Nothing said, nothing to do.
— seth borenstein (@borenbears) August 7, 2015
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Defense is a perennial topic in any presidential election season. But during the first Republican debate in Cleveland tonight, the candidates fought not about increasing the number of troops and tanks on the ground, but about how to enhance the country’s cyber security.
It started off with Carly Fiorina—widely considered the winner of the night’s earlier debate for the lower-polling GOP contenders—calling for companies to tear down the so-called “cyberwalls” that prevent the government from accessing data from companies like Google and Apple. Fiorina argued that these barriers make it difficult for security agencies to “connect the dots” around potential risks.
“I certainly support that we need to tear down cyberwalls,” Fiorina said, “not on a mass basis but on a targeted basis.”
And while ISIS was certainly positioned as enemy No. 1 throughout the debate, candidates also discussed recent hacks allegedly carried out by Russia and China as a key threats to national security. During the second debate for the top ten contenders, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said these attacks amounted to acts of cyberwar.
Meanwhile, the most talked-about moment of the night, according to Facebook’s data, was when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul faced off over the issue of government surveillance.
MUST WATCH! @RandPaul and @ChrisChristie get into a HEATED debate over the collection people’s records #GOPdebate https://t.co/doLjSdUKLH
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) August 7, 2015
While Paul stood his ground as a diehard opponent of government collection of public records, Christie said his experience as US Attorney of New Jersey in the aftermath of September 11th convinced him of the importance of surveillance. As president, Christie said he would push to provide even more tools to these agencies.
No matter where the candidates stood, one thing was clear: cyber security is the new national security.
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Tonight’s GOP presidential debate was heavy on incendiary comments from Donald Trump but low on memes. There was, however, one glimmer of hope: the forthcoming fake Chris Christie smooth jazz album.
During an exchange with Sen. Rand Paul about bulk collection of phone records under the Patriot Act, the New Jersey governor defended himself against Paul’s comment that he gave President Obama “a big hug” by saying, “You know, Sen. Paul, the hugs that I remember are the ones I gave to the families who lost their people on Sept. 11.”
Soon after the exchange, comedian Patton Oswalt asked the Internet to turn The Hugs that I Remember into a smooth jazz album. Naturally, the Internet delivered. Check out the best offerings above.
Can SOMEONE Photoshop an album cover for Chris Christie’s smooth jazz masterpiece, THE HUGS THAT I REMEMBER? #GOPDebate
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) August 7, 2015
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There will tweets. There will be liveblogs. There will be thinkpieces. It’s the GOP debate tonight—and everyone on the Internet will have a whole lot to say.
One more way to weigh in: The Washington Post is inviting anyone on the Internet to annotate the numbers, the zingers, the truths, and the lies that make their way onto the permanent record.
The Post is working with Genius (formerly Rap Genius) to let readers annotate the running transcript of the debate published on the venerable newspaper’s site. Genius will provide the tech overlay that will allow anyone to highlight, annotate, and comment on the words of Trump, Bush, Cruz, and the debate’s seven other participants.
“We’re hoping for a civil, constructive discussion,” Cory Haik, the Post’s executive director of emerging news products, says. The Post’s reporters will be adding their own fact-checking and commentary to the transcript, as well.
Real Genius
This isn’t the first time the Post has run transcripts alongside major political events. “They do really well for us, particularly on social and search traffic,” Haik says. But while in the past the Post has spent the night post-debate poring over the record, tonight they’ll do it in near real-time with the help of the crowd.
“It’s cool to read the primary source with the added level of information,” says Ilan Zechory, Genius’ co-founder and president. As with the lyrics that Genius was first launched to annotate, commentators will be able to pull out the “hidden messages, meanings, lies, and exaggerations” that will saturate the debate, Zechory says.
To be sure, the Post will be moderating annotations to ensure that they meet the site’s standards of decency. However, it’s up to Genius’ system to determine, which comments get shown and how. Zechory says Genius offers a kind of “upvote” system to highlight the best content when possibly thousands of users will be weighing in at wants. Genius also prioritizes verified users, such as Post reporters or politicians who might chime in.
“As a political junkie,” Zechory says, “I’m excited to watch the carnival.”
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Snapchat really wants to be the Next Big Thing in political advertising, and, so far, it’s had some middling success. But its latest political ad, which launched today, is just plain bizarre. It’s also completely genius … in an evil kind of way.
Sponsored by an organization called Secure America Now, a conservative foreign policy nonprofit, the ad appears to users not as a video, but as a filter—the decals Snapchat users can slap on a photo or video before sending it. Framed by that filter, users are supposed to take a picture that reflects how they feel “about the bad Iran deal.”
@PeterKoltak pic.twitter.com/rdfJop2Y4o
— Mike (@thekevkoltak) August 6, 2015
Weird, right? Snapchat is full of kids and isn’t known as a hub of discussion on international relations. But the genius here is that the filter gives all those fresh-faced young ‘uns a reason to become the ad—and to spread it by broadcasting the message to their friends.
Snapchat has been running other video campaign ads this election season, but the Iran deal ad is the first in filter form. It’s only available to users in Ohio in advance of tonight’s debate in Cleveland. And, according to Vincent Harris, the consultant who designed the campaign for Secure America Now, it’s already being used “more heavily than I even expected it to be.”
“Snapchat is the primary source of information for a lot of younger voters,” Harris says. “So it’s the best way to actually educate younger voters about large issues like this.”
Of course, not everyone is happy with Snapchat over what they perceive as the platform taking sides. That, or, you know, they just don’t care all that much about Iran.
Hey snapchat, idgaf about the Bad Iran Deal
— B-rad (@bradkeener82) August 6, 2015
(Translation.)
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If Facebook users—which is to say, most of us—had their way, the GOP candidates taking the stage during the debate tonight would have an honest and open conversation about race.
And also, they’d all ride into Cleveland on winged unicorns.
That type of discussion is, of course, unlikely, but according to new data released by Facebook today, race relations were the most talked-about political issue on the site during the period between May 29th and July 28th of this year. In second place was Mexico, followed by the economy, LGBT issues, and immigration. The rankings are based on how many posts, likes, shares, and comments these topics have received.
Facebook, which is co-sponsoring the debates with Fox, provides the network with this data, but that doesn’t mean the moderators will adjust their questions accordingly. Still, they might be wise to. With hundreds of millions of daily active users in the US, Facebook has become a new barometer of public sentiment. And while the Republican candidates have been more than willing to share their thoughts on marriage equality, the economy, and immigration, race is one topic that—with a few exceptions—they’ve skirted almost entirely.
It’s no wonder, then, that a discussion on race is precisely what the public craves.
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If you weren’t planning on watching the Republican debates tonight, perhaps this will convince you to reconsider. Food delivery startup Eat24 is launching a very special debate night promotion: every time Donald Trump says “Mexico,” you get a free taco.
When Donald Trump says ‘Mexico’ we give you Free Tacos http://t.co/EYLegutBTq
— Eat24 (@Eat24) August 5, 2015
That is, every time he says “Mexico,” Eat24 will post a $5 coupon code to Twitter, enough to cover the cost of a taco, or, you know, any other food item under $5. “We believe in freedom of the belly, so it’s totally up to you,” the company wrote in a blog post, which is essentially a backhanded jab at Trump’s now infamous comments about Mexi