Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump: Presidential election 2016

In an interview on “60 Minutes” that airs tonight, President-elect Donald J. Trump said that he is not keen to give up his platform as Tweeter-in-Chief when he takes office in January.

“I’m not saying I love it, but it does get the word out,” said Trump about the social communications platform that he has used effectively, in a wide-ranging interview about numerous topics. “When you give me a bad story, or when you give me an inaccurate story, I have a method of fighting back.”

As Geoff Lewis notes in what is a pretty remarkable post on Medium this afternoon, titled “#TurnOnReality,” he might be in big trouble for what he wrote today about his opposition to Donald Trump and what he thinks we all should do about it.

“If some of the most frightening rumors are true, than I will face retaliation just for writing these words today,” wrote Lewis, referring to remarks by Trump followers promising retribution for those who did not and will not not fall into line.

There’s no question that stock of tech companies got hit this week on no real financial developments or performance issues. Except, of course, the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States.

Yes, that.

We all already have a mad crush on “Saturday Night Live” phenom Kate McKinnon, but she just took it to 11 with the cold open on the show tonight, singing an emotional and heart-wrenching “Hallelujah.” It’s a fitting homage to her perfect impersonations of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over the last year, most of which were comical and also revelatory.

Not this, which is also a fitting tribute to the song’s creator Leonard Cohen, who died this week. McKinnon tears up at the end and says: “I’m not giving up and neither should you.”

In a post on Facebook, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that fake stories on the powerful social network did not change the recent presidential election results.

Noting that most of Facebook content is “authentic” — apparently 99 percent, although he offers no proof of how he got to this number — and that fake news and hoaxes are not limited to one partisan view, Zuckerberg wrote: “Overall, this makes it extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election in one direction or the other.”

Strong support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues has been a hallmark of tech companies in Silicon Valley for a very long time now, with major players like Apple and Salesforce backing issues like gay marriage or fighting loudly against retrograde laws aimed at limiting gay rights in states like Indiana and North Carolina.

Even investor Peter Thiel made an issue of it at the Republican National Convention this summer when he spoke in support of now president-elect Donald J. Trump. Thiel said the party needed to stop focusing on social issues, like who gets to go to which bathroom.

T-Mobile CEO John Legere has had epic Twitter fights with Donald Trump, and Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure was a vocal supporter of Hillary Clinton.

But in emails to staff this week, both executives sounded a conciliatory note toward the man who holds the key to both companies’ future.

Donald Trump doesn’t like encryption. He threatened to call for a boycott of Apple products because they wouldn’t undermine the encryption on the iPhone.

Trump also loves surveillance. When he was a candidate, he said he wanted to place mosques under U.S. surveillance and create a national database to track Muslims.

Weren’t happy with Donald Trump’s surprise win in the U.S. presidential election? You have lots of company, according to Google’s search prediction feature.

If you type “how to” into Google right now, the search engine’s first two guesses at what you are searching for are related to the Trump victory:

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A Donald Trump presidency will shake up key regulatory agencies in Washington, which could lead to a reversal of hard-won decisions on issues like net neutrality and completely upend the relationships the tech industry has worked to foster with regulators.

Trump will appoint new leaders to agencies like the Federal Communications Commission, the agency that brought us net neutrality last year.

A version of this essay was published on Techdirt.com.

Yeah, okay, I know there are a million and one “hot takes” going on across the media about what happened yesterday and “what went wrong.” I already wrote about what the election means for tech policy and civil liberties, but the trite setup of the blame game is getting really stupid, really fast. I had already started writing up a response to this silly Vox article about how “Facebook is harming our democracy” before the election (the story came out over the weekend), but now that I’m seeing more and more people (especially in the media) blaming Facebook and “algorithms” for the results of the election, I’m turning it into this post: If you’re blaming Facebook for the results of this election, you’re an idiot.

Let’s get this big caveat out of the way: Donald Trump probably isn’t interested in the minutiae of being president — that is to say the actual, everyday management of the most powerful state on earth.

His cabinet will end up exercising far more power than any unelected body ever has in the U.S. But it’s worth examining what Trump himself has said, since we still believe in the public process of a democracy — if he’s said it out loud, it’s fair game.

EBay CEO Devin Wenig has largely avoided discussing the U.S. presidential election in public.

But in the wake of Donald Trump’s surprise victory on Tuesday, Wenig sent out a company-wide note — which Recode got its hands on — to eBay’s global staff on Wednesday,

Up until Tuesday morning, it was easy to consider yourself well informed about what was going to happen during the 2016 presidential election: All you had to do was check your choice of polls, almost all of which showed Clinton winning.

If you wanted to get more sophisticated, you could look at a data + politics hub like Nate Silver’s Fivethirtyeight, which provided more nuanced odds, but still favored Clinton.

President-elect Donald Trump.

That reality landed Wednesday morning to the kind of welcome the tech community usually reserves for an unexpected cyber attack. In Lisbon, Portugal, where thousands of Silicon Valley and New York techies have convened for the annual Web Summit conference, many people woke up to texts and Slack notifications alerting them to the shocking news most Americans had swallowed before heading to bed Tuesday night.

President Obama is addressing the nation this afternoon from the White House after Donald Trump was elected as his successor, bringing an end to what has been one of the most intense and disturbing presidential races in American history.

Both President Obama and Michelle Obama had campaigned hard for Hillary Clinton.

Let’s state the obvious: Donald Trump and Amazon CEO, and Washington Post owner, Jeff Bezos do not see eye to eye. And that becomes a more concerning prospect for Bezos and Amazon now that Trump is president-elect.

In May, after learning of the large team of Washington Post reporters looking into his past, Trump told conservative TV commentator Sean Hannity that Bezos was using the paper to damage Trump’s chances because he feared what a President Trump would mean for Amazon.

Donald Trump had some harsh words for Apple during the campaign, but what will his attitude be toward the world’s biggest company now that he is the President-elect?

During the campaign, Trump said he would call for a boycott of Apple products if the company didn’t reverse its strong pro-encryption stance. He also criticized the company for not making more of its products in the U.S.

Donald Trump pulled off a shocking upset Tuesday night to win the presidential election, one that most polls and pundits had given to Hillary Clinton for weeks if not months.

While Clinton called Trump last night to concede the election, she did not address the nation. Watch her speak live to her supporters in New York below.

You’ll never forget the moment you first realized Donald Trump was going to be president of the United States.

I was slumped in a red Budweiser beanbag chair at an American-themed bar in the heart of downtown Lisbon, Portugal, a half-finished beer in hand, surrounded by half-finished beers from those who had already given up and left the bar.

GOP presidential candidate Donald J. Trump is set to be the next president of the United States, after beating the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in a stunning upset.

She conceded to him early Wednesday morning, after Trump eclipsed Clinton in both the electoral college and the popular vote.

Here’s Donald Trump’s victory speech to his supporters at his election headquarters tonight.

Earlier tonight, Hillary Clinton’s chief campaign adviser, John Podesta, told her supporters that she will not speak tonight.

At 2:47 p.m. in Colorado this afternoon, election officals reported all voter systems statewide had shut down. Specifically, the registration databases weren’t working, which are used to confirm and verify voter data.

Election officials now say that the system has been restored, about 30 minutes after the failure.

Getting antsy?

The markets aren’t, and that’s unusual. That’s because they’re banking on early election data from startup VoteCastr that, for the moment, shows Hillary Clinton with a slight edge.