Facebook said Tuesday that it had discovered a sophisticated coordinated disinformation operation on its platform involving 32 false pages and profiles engaging in divisive messaging ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.Source: Facebook says it has uncovered a coordinated disinformation operation ahead of the 2018 midterm elections...
Editors’ Note: Sean Parnell continues Histphil‘s forum on anonymous giving, making the affirmative, historical case.Source: The Historical Case for Charitable Donor Privacy...
The Institute for Free Speech is pleased to welcome Mike Columbo as a pro bono Senior Fellow. Mike is Of Counsel in the Political Law Section of the California law firm of Nielsen Merksamer.Source: IFS Welcomes Senior Fellow Mike Columbo...
Mission Viejo, California, a city in Orange County, will use cumulative voting for city council elections starting in 2020. See this story. Here is the wikipedia page about cumulative voting.Source: Mission Viejo, California, Will Use Cumulative Voting Starting in 2020...
ALCOA, Tenn.—With more than a quarter of the current 23 House Republican women leaving Congress after this year, GOP women are working to replenish their ranks in primary elections like Thursday’s crowded showdown in this Knoxville district.Source: Republican Women Seek to Keep Numbers From Dwindling in the House...
When Russian hackers targeted the staff of Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., they took aim at maybe the most vulnerable sector of U.S. elections: campaigns.Source: Russian Hackers Targeted The Most Vulnerable Part Of U.S. Elections. Again....
(TNS) — Although California has received an “all-clear” from government agencies looking into Russian attempts to hack into voting data for states across the nation, safe today doesn’t mean safe tomorrow, a leading computer security expert warned.Source: Hacking California’s Election System Would Be Difficult, Not Impossible, Experts Say...
In the weeks before the 2016 election, memes proliferated on Twitter bearing instructions on how to vote by phone or text message. The images were stylized to resemble Hillary Clinton’s campaign materials, and targeted her supporters in both English and Spanish. “Save time. Avoid the line.Source: Is Lying About an Election Free Speech or Fraud?...
Liberal activists, who were dramatically outspent in their last fight to fend off President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, are embracing a tactic that has been a mainstay of the conservative political playbook: tapping a war chest financed by unidentified donors to try to influence judicial nominSource: Liberal activists embrace ‘dark money’ in Supreme Court fight...
The making of Kimberly Reed’s documentary “Dark Money” was prompted by the 2010 United States Supreme Court Citizens United decision allowing unlimited corporate spending in election campaigns if it is done apart from a candidate or party.Source: Documentary ‘Dark Money’ is close to a political thriller...
