Social Media
Stories related to how government agencies use social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to engage with residents, as well as the policies that govern social media practices for the public sector. Includes coverage of the impact of social media companies on government.
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Effective Jan. 1, 2026, a new state law in North Carolina will require school districts to enact policies and measures to prevent students from accessing social media on school devices and networks. -
North Carolina's Child Fatality Task Force recently endorsed legislation to limit how companies can use data on minors, and it will continue studying the impacts of AI companions and chatbots.
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Many professors cite the rising impact of AI and the speech of some prominent politicians as reasons to inoculate students against propaganda and falsehoods being mass produced and spread on social media.
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The proposed bill, which is still being drafted, asks the Florida Legislature to impose penalties for social media companies whose algorithms are perceived to favor one candidate over another.
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Research by a San Francisco-based analytics firm found that conversations about election fraud dropped 73 percent across popular social media sites in the week after President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter.
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The last several weeks saw Mayor Francis Suarez emerge as a new favorite of tech Twitter as Suarez engaged with a stream of tech execs, founders and promoters expressing online interest in relocating to Miami.
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Over the four years of the Trump presidency, social media platforms generally took a soft line in enforcing their policies against threats and misinformation, allowing most borderline speech to stand.
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The search for pro-Trump rioters that stormed and defaced the U.S. Capitol building last week has intensified and federal law enforcement is using every means at its disposal to investigate the incident.
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YourT1Wifi, which operates in Northern Idaho, is allowing customers to request that access to Facebook and Twitter be blocked following the widespread bans against President Trump on the platforms last Friday.
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Carbon County, Pa., commissioners instituted a new social media and website policy allowing employees to engage with the public to bring awareness through its widely used social media platforms.
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After Wednesday's siege of the U.S. Capitol by a violent and seditious mob seeking to prevent the certification of the presidential election, Facebook is blocking President Trump from posting until at least Jan. 20.
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Social media isn’t valuable to an audience if communications are too broad. Governments should work to understand what different kinds of information constituents might want and target their messaging accordingly.
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In the years since public agencies first went social, the way they operate online has made strides, from mid-2000s YouTube experiments to fully fledged social media programs that drive citizen engagement.
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Creating content that only lasts for 24 hours may seem like a waste of time for government, but Instagram Stories is an increasingly popular platform that can add a new channel for reaching constituents.
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So many government agencies are still using "government speak" on social media and wondering why citizens aren't engaging with them.
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Five up-and-coming social media sites and applications government should keep an eye on.
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