Summary: Beyond Social Media Show, Full Episode 152<br> <br> BL and David discuss Russia’s hacking of American democracy and Donald Trump’s treasonous encouragement; the hacking of TechCrunch; Getty Images swiping a 18,000 public domain photos from the Library of Congress; the Olympic tweeting ban; Melania Trump laid bare; Twitter shutting down PostGhost; a YouTube kidnap conspiracy; Stable & Unstable Likers; the Action Aids ad campaign; Ralph Lauren’s custom animated Gif campaign; Twitter’s original food content; Minnesota in a box; the Trojan Olypmics; and much, much more.<br> Worst Digital Cases<br> Donald Trump Asks Putin’s Russia To Hack American Democracy<br> <br> Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has encouraged Russia to hack his political opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, prompting a bipartisan group of national security experts to label the activities as an attack on American democracy and to urge the Obama Administration to publicly call out Russia.<br> The hacking attacks have also caused grave concern that Russia may try to hack state voting systems in an attempt to ensure Trump becomes president.<br> <br> * <a href="http://time.com/4429709/dnc-hack-democratic-national-committee-security-experts/">Bipartisan Security Experts: DNC Hack Is An Attack On Democracy</a><br><br> <br> * <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-democrats-investigation-exc-idUSKCN1092HK">Clinton Campaign Also Hacked In Attacks On Democrats</a><br> * <a href="http://www.politifact.com/global-news/article/2016/may/02/paul-manafort-donald-trumps-top-adviser-and-his-ti/">Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s Top Advisor, And His Ties To Pro-Russian Politicians In Ukraine</a><br> <br> Aspen Institute Homeland Security Group Statement On DNC Hack<br> <br> Donald Trump Asks Russia To Hack American Democracy<br> <br> Donald Trump’s Business Ties To Russia<br> <br> Olympics Committee Says Non-Sponsors Cannot Tweet About the Olympics<br> <br><br> The US Olympics Committee has gone off the deep end, when it comes to intellectual property. It has issued a statement saying it is willing to sue anyone to protect their trademarks. These include “Olympic,” “Olympian” and “Go For The Gold,” hashtags such as #Rio2016 or #TeamUSA,”among many other words and phrases.<br> <br> * <a href="http://gizmodo.com/olympics-committee-says-non-sponsors-are-banned-from-tw-1784344194" target="_blank">Olympics Committee Says Non-Sponsors Are Banned From Tweeting About the Olympics</a><br> * <a href="http://espn.go.com/olympics/story/_/id/17120510/united-states-olympic-committee-battle-athletes-companies-sponsor-not-olympics" target="_blank">USOC sends letter warning non-Olympic sponsor companies</a><br> * <a href="http://www.teamusa.org/brand-usage-guidelines" target="_blank">U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Brand Usage Guidelines</a><br> <br> <br> <a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rio2016">#Rio2016 Tweets</a><br><br> // <a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TeamUSA">#TeamUSA Tweets</a><br> Getty Gets Grabby With Public Domain Pics<br> <br> Photographer Carol Highsmith recently received a copyright infringement notice from Getty Images demanding $120 for the use of…one of her own photos! The photograph in question was one of 18,755 she had donated to the American people via the Library of Congress for public domain use.<br> She has filed a lawsuit due to Getty’s sales of her public domain photographs while claiming to be the copyright holder.<br> <br> * <a href="http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-l..."></a>
