Tweets will be official presidential records if the Covfefe Act passes

America's 45th president has a habit of writing and then deleting his social media posts and US Representative Mike Quigley wants him to stop. As such, Quigley on Monday introduced legislation to force the National Archives to include "social media"...

Trump administration is killing its open data portal

Reversing yet another Obama-era practice, the Trump administration announced on Friday that it will not only be keeping its visitor logs secret for five years after Trump leaves office, but will be shuttering the Open.gov portal. This is where the pr...

Lawmakers demand answers from White House over Yahoo emails

Four dozen members of the US House of Representatives, acting as a bipartisan bloc, have requested that the Obama Administration brief them on allegations that Yahoo improperly scanned user emails at the behest of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillanc...

White House releases its FB bot to the world as open-source

The Obama Administration receives thousands of emails, phone calls and letters every day. And, since August, American citizens have been able to contact the president through Facebook as well, thanks the the White House's Messenger bot. Now, the admi...

Go behind the scenes of the State of the Union with Snapchat

The White House announced today that it had joined Snapchat ahead of tomorrow's State of the Union address, the last before President Obama leaves office. Snapchat is a social site where users' fleeting posts disappear after just a few seconds. It bo...

White House says broadband is a ‘Core Utility’ just like power and water

Think you could survive in this day and age without access to a broadband connection? The White House has its doubts. A recent report from the Broadband Opportunity Council (under the auspices of the Oval Office) described broadband connectivity as...

White House Releases Official Spotify Playlists


You can definitely tell that his term in winding down (somewhat - there is still a lot of time to go, actually...) The White House has released two different Spotify playlists of songs today, one for...

President Obama on Bill Cosby: There’s No Precedent for Revoking a Medal


During a news conference in White House, Washington, on Wednesday, President Obama responded to the questions related to Bill Cosby’s sexual assault allegations.Though, he declined to address the...