By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. Chief of staff John Kelly is forced to publicly insist he's remaining in his job.Source: POLITICO...
If the Senate wasn't impressed with Facebook, Google and Twitter's responses to grilling on Capitol Hill late last year over possible Russian interference in the 2016 election, they probably aren't going to be too pleased now.Source: Facebook, Google and Twitter don't reveal much in answers to congress...
Marco Rubio, a Republican, represents Florida in the U.S. Senate. Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, represents Maryland in the U.S. Senate.Source: Our elections are in danger. Congress must defend them....
The FBI is investigating whether a top Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin illegally funneled money to the National Rifle Association to help Donald Trump win the presidency, two sources familiar with the matter have told McClatchy.Source: FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump...
Fake news evolved from seedy internet sideshow to serious electoral threat so quickly that behavioral scientists had little time to answer basic questions about it, like who was reading what, how much real news they also consumed and whether targeted fact-checking efforts ever hit a target.Source: ‘Fake News’: Wide Reach but Little Impact, Study Suggests...
The discovery that Russian-linked firms bought thousands of Facebook ads prompted the return of a common trope in America, namely, that foreigners are engineering our downfall by defiling our political purity. Russia, a familiar foe, now has a new tool: Facebook.Source: Facebook and the new Red Scare...
Representatives from Twitter, Facebook and Google are expected to testify this week at three congressional hearings on the influence of social media in the 2016 election. The Senate bill was introduced by Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Mark Warner (D-Va.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.).Source: Congress holds hearings on online political ads...
Forces are aligning to bring some sunlight to the political dark arts as they’re practiced on social media. Last week, Congress held a hearing to discuss a bill that would require new disclosures for online political ads, and a bigger confrontation looms Tuesday when executives from Facebook Inc.Source: Here’s Why It’s So Hard to Regulate Political Ads on Social Media...
WASHINGTON — The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee paid for research that was included in a dossier made public in January that contained salacious claims about connections between Donald J. Trump, his associates and Russia.Source: Clinton Campaign and Democratic Party Helped Pay for Russia Trump Dossier...
SAN FRANCISCO — Google has found evidence that Russian agents bought ads on its wide-ranging networks in an effort to interfere with the 2016 presidential campaign.Source: Google Finds Accounts Connected to Russia Bought Election Ads...
