Politics

You wouldn't know it from watching a Republican debate with your Twitter feed open, but according to a new report from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, fewer Americans are closely following news about the presidential campaign tha

Huffington Post media reporter Michael Calderone is bemoaning the state of our political coverage -- now more than ever, he says, politics is trivialized by Twitter. Can we mourn, too, the state of Michael Calderone's media criticism?"Political

The BBC, Sky News and CNN are trying to figure out how to make Twitter play nicely with traditional newsrooms. Sky News and the BBC released new social media guidelines this week, while CNN has suspended an analyst for controversial tweets.

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube services have become indispensable tools in the worlds of politics and protest. During the past year, social media have taken on an important role for revolutionaries in the Middle East, protesters here at home and politician

Priyanka Gandhi on Sunday said the central focus of her brother Rahul Gandhi's politics is not to become prime minister and the question does not arise at the moment.