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...
More large companies are disclosing how they spend to influence government, and company boards are taking on a more direct role in overseeing that spending, a new study finds.Source: More Company Boards Add Oversight of Political Spending...
Why it matters: The past election cycle showed just how much modern campaigns lean on programmatic advertising to reach voters and donors with persuasive ads that could push them to vote one way or another.Source: Scoop: The FEC's plans for political ad disclosures...
Mark Wiedman, a BlackRock senior managing director, donated $2,700 to the presidential campaign of Ohio Governor John Kasich, who was seeking the Republican Party nomination, according to a filing made earlier this year with the U.S.Source: A $2,700 donation by a BlackRock executive could cost the firm $37 million...
– A new two-year academic inquiry at Georgetown, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is documenting and analyzing hundreds of incidents around the country in which free speech has been challenged. The Free Speech Project, directed by Sanford J.Source: New Project at Georgetown to Track Free Speech Incidents Across Country...
Facebook announced yesterday that it has agreed to disclose ads to Congress that were purchase by Russians in an attempt to influence the 2016 elections. CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement via a Facebook Live video: However, Facebook's promises of increased efforts in election integrity and cooperation on Russian ads didn't stop Democratic senators from wanting to increase campaign finance...
