Folks at Facebook need to lean in and lawyer up. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s legal dream team is likely exploring whether the tech company has liability for political ads sold to a Russian firm. It’s time for Facebook to share what it knows.Source: Robert Mueller, Meet Mark Zuckerberg...
It’s often difficult to figure out the results of elections based on Zip codes because Zip codes, frustratingly, don’t align neatly with political boundaries. The U.S.Source: Clinton raised a much higher percentage of her money in places she won than did Trump...
Facebook Inc, under pressure over its role in possible Russian meddling in last year’s US presidential election, said it plans an election integrity initiative to protect Canada’s next vote from cyberthreats.Source: Facebook to launch 'election integrity initiative' to prevent meddling of votes, ahead of Canadian elections...
COMMENTARY: Doug Nickle’s recent column (“Campaign reporting proposal creates necessary, nation-leading disclosure in NM”) is an example of Orwellian doublespeak at its best.Source: New Mexicans should be suspicious of secretary of state’s anti-privacy rulemaking...
A Kremlin-linked firm spent at least six figures on political Facebook ads in the 2016 elections. But any Americans who may have lent a hand to the private company being called a “troll farm” with ties to Putin may be in the greatest legal jeopardy.Source: Russia’s Facebook Ads Could Spell Trouble for Any American Who Lent a Hand...
Today Common Cause filed a complaint with the U.S.Source: For Immediate Release Russian Facebook Political Ad Buys During 2016 Election Draw DOJ & FEC Complaints...
Democrats have been throttled by Republicans in the all-important battle for state legislative chambers the past decade. Now they're trying to turn the tide with the launch of a new super PAC.Source: Democrats launch super PAC to win back statehouses...
SAN FRANCISCO >> In a recent speech to Republican donors, John Cox, a candidate for California governor, exuded the kind of optimism that could only come from an underdog. But getting GOP benefactors to believe that won’t be easy.Source: Republicans vying for California governor’s office likely to face skeptical donors...
Care about freedom of the press? Support independent investigative journalism.Source: Democrats say ‘Citizens United’ should die. Here’s why that won’t happen....
There’s almost zero chance Congress will this year seriously consider a single bill aimed at reforming the nation’s weakened money-in-politics laws.Source: Statehouses, Not Congress, Hosting Biggest Political Money Fights...
