How Social Media and Technology Influence Elections
Can Twitter predict who will win the election? Two out of three Americans use social media every day. There are 100 million daily active twitter users, 1,374,000,000 people on Facebook, 2.3 million Google searches a second, 187 million unique visitors monthly; and 1 billion viewers on YouTube generating millions of hours and trillions of views. […]
Our Veteran’s Silent Wounds of War
The silent wounds of war afflict thousands of our returning veterans. The resulting effects from PTSD, (Post-traumatic stress disorder, a mental health condition that’s triggered by a terrifying event) traumatic brain injuries, and blast injuries are devastating. The suicide rate among veterans has increased 34% since 2001, one suicide every 65 minutes with women veterans […]
Re-Air: Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden: Journalism and National Security – Part Two
A very recent House intelligence committee report has called National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden a “serial exaggerator and fabricator” who does not fit the profile of a whistleblower. California congressman Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said that the vast majority of what Snowden took had nothing to do with American privacy. […]
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