Sunlight's Politwoops has powered great reporting, fueled serious discussions and even taught some valuable lessons to politicians.
Continue readingThe Week on Politwoops: Hiding campaign connections, playing coy about 2016 and more
This week's roundup of deletions archived by Politwoops includes a campaign-related image deleted from an official account, another possible 2016 contender removing a reference to them as a candidate and more.
Continue readingThe Week on Politwoops: who didn’t celebrate #FLBootDay, why politicians shared a fad diet and more
Another busy week for Sunlight's Politwoops project to archive the deleted tweets of U.S. politicians. This week's deletions include a photo of a Governor's custom made boots, pervasive diet spam malware, a Nazi comparison and more!
Continue readingThe Week on Politwoops: Tillis Montage, campaign clearings and more
Happy Friday and welcome to another review of the week's notable deleted tweets archived by our Politwoops project.
Continue readingPolitwoops 2013: the year’s top politicians and their best deletions from Twitter
As the year winds down and Washington retreats to spend the holidays with family and friends, let's look back at the many gifts politicians left for Politwoops in 2013 as they deleted messages once shared eagerly with their followers.
Continue readingPolitwoops U.S. Turns One!
The Sunlight Foundation's Politwoops U.S. adaptation of the original Politwoops.nl turns one-year-old today and it has certainly made an impression.
Continue readingRep. Cohen: I Gamed Politwoops to Get Out Message
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., says he recently utilized the Sunlight Foundation's Politwoops site that monitors deleted tweets from politicians to stage an elaborate trick on the media (or ethics lesson, depending on how you see it), saying, "The best way to get a message out is to tweet and delete."
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