Several anti-immigrant messages with an explicit pro-Trump slant are included among the 3,000 pieces of Russian-linked political content Facebook plans to turn over to Congressional investigators, ABC News has learned.Source: Russian-generated Facebook posts pushed Trump as 'only viable option'...
Governor Brown signed SB 568, which moves all of California’s partisan primaries from June to the first week in March, in midterm years as well as presidential years. The change is effective after 2018.Source: California’s Shift to a March Primary Likely Dooms Top-Two System...
The House and Senate Intelligence Committees have asked executives from major tech companies to appear in open hearings tied to the committees’ Russia investigations.Source: Twitter, Google, Facebook Called to Testify Before Congress Over Russian Campaign Ads...
SAN FRANCISCO — After a weekend when Americans took to social media to debate President Trump’s admonishment of N.F.L.Source: Twitter, With Accounts Linked to Russia, to Face Congress Over Role in Election...
"Trump says Facebook is against him. Liberals say we helped Trump," Zuckerberg said in a statement posted to Facebook. "Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don't like. That's what running a platform for all ideas looks like."Source: Zuckerberg responds to Trump's claim Facebook was out to get him...
Major public companies are letting a little more sunlight into their wallets, making more disclosures about their political spending on their web sites and adding more board oversight to monitor it, according to a new study.Source: The most and least transparent companies for political spending...
Backing an effort for California to claim a bigger share of the attention from presidential candidates, Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill moving the state's primary elections to early March.Source: California moves its presidential primary to March in push for electoral relevance...
