Obama Administration Releases Searchable Archive of Social Media Posts (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Thursday January 5, 2017 @11:25AM from the all-in-one dept.

An anonymous reader writes: President Obama's entire social media presence as POTUS is now available in a single online archive. The administration today launched The Obama White House Social Media Archive, a searchable collection of everything the president and his administration posted on Instagram, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Google+, and Pinterest during his two terms in office. According to ArchiveSocial, the platform on which the archive is hosted, this includes more than 100 social media profiles associated with the White House and more than 250,000 total posts. As of right now, the archive's search function isn't the smoothest. A general search like "healthcare" will yield nearly 600 tangential results, including tweets from White House staffers. The Advanced Search will allow you to narrow things down a bit, with filters for date range and social media platform.

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Not fake, but 25 times as much grant money by raymorris · 2017-01-05 12:44 · Score: 1, Informative

While Gore was handing out tax-funded grant money, and afterwards when his profit-making carbon exchange company was underwriting the work of scientists, do you think those grants went to scientists who pointed out Gore was mischaracterizing (exaggerating) the data? When a person who profits from AGW scare-mongering pays the scientist's paychecks, he's going to hire^H^H^H^H award grants to those scientists who support his viewpoint.
Again, I'm not saying they're all full of shit, any more than the generals at the Pentagon who are serious about defending their country. Both know, however, that you don't get promoted by announcing that the boss is full of shit.