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Sometimes your best friend can be your worst enemy. That is the lesson Florida’s Republican governor Rick Scott learned the hard way when a Facebook and Twitter-initiated campaign got him booed out of a major league ballpark on opening day.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is opening up a discussion between himself and the Arab “internet generation”, hoping to start an Israeli-Arab dialogue on YouTube.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Political Action Committee Turn Right USA may take the cake for the most offensive and inappropriate attack ad with their new anti-Janice Hahn ad, uploaded to YouTube just days ago.

Today, political debate has made its way to YouTube with the launch of YouTube Town Hall, a new platform where congressmen go head-to-head on the issues that matter to you.

Copyright laws are a serious matter and nobody understands that better than former Florida governor Charlie Crist.  Crist made the innocent mistake of using the Talking Heads song ‘Road To Nowhere’ in a YouTube video advertisement in his Senate campaign last year and is now paying the consequences.  After losing a lawsuit filed by David [...]

As the scope of the email data breach that affected customers of top companies like Target, Best Buy, J.P. Morgan Chase expands to a point where it could become the biggest of its kind in U.S. history, the company behind the breach, Epsilon, finds itself in hot, boiling hot, waters on Capitol Hill.

Sometimes your best friend can be your worst enemy. That is the lesson Florida’s Republican governor Rick Scott learned the hard way when a Facebook and Twitter-initiated campaign got him booed out of a major league ballpark on opening day.

“No. 1 hero in Tunisia” is probably not a status update Mark Zuckerberg ever thought would appear on his Facebook wall. Yet that is exactly what Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) has anointed the CEO and co-founder of Facebook after a visit to Tunisia this month. Is ‘No. 1 hero’ in a protest-torn country really a status a CEO like Zuckerberg wants?

It looks like former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs can leave his Facebook status as ‘single’ after all, according to a published report.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has unveiled the beta version of its new website FCC.gov with an emphasis on consumer use and interactivity. It’s new, it’s splashy and it uses key words like “blog” and “citizen engagement platforms.” But is it really ‘government 2.0’ we can believe in?

President Barack Obama will participate in an intimate, cozy town-hall meeting, with a small group of more than 500 million potential attendees — a special Facebook Live gathering Wednesday, April 20, at 4:45 p.m. ET/1:45 p.m. PT.