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TV ad spend will shrink in the US this year by 0.5% to $69.9 billion, according to eMarketer's updated forecast. TV's share of US media spend will decrease as a result, from 33.9% in 2017 to 31.6% this year.
Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, speaks during a discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018. The list of speakers at CPAC that opens today includes two European nativists who will address the gathering between panels and events on the dangers of immigration, Sharia law and lawless government agencies.
IN THE CROSSHAIRS: Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and CEO of Facebook, speaks at a summit in 2016. He is now under fire for the Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal.
A new report by The Intercept has found the government department who deport illegal immigrants used the swathes of information held by the social media giant. One example flagged in the document was how the ICE was able to get their hands on Facebook login details and corresponding IP addresses when a man they were hunting in New Mexico.
Eagles of Death Metal singer and Bataclan survivor Jesse Hughes calls March For Our Lives 'pathetic', and says the students who lived through the Parkland shooting are 'vile abusers of the dead' Trump's White House investigates Jared: Lawyers probe whether $500M in loans to Kushner's family business broke the law or were unethical Trump has told his aides behind closed doors that Stormy Daniels is not his type, and claims the porn star's affair allegations are a 'hoax' How to download the mountains of data Facebook has on you - including call logs, texts, ads you've clicked, and conversations you thought you deleted DC rumor mill says Paul Ryan could RESIGN as Speaker of the House in the next 30 days to embark on a run for the presidency, and that he will be replaced by Steve Scalise, claims Congressman REVEALED: Maryland high school gunman killed HIMSELF after he murdered his ... (more)
Trump Talks of Bringing Back Rob Porter, Aide Accused of Spousal Abuse - WASHINGTON - President Trump has stayed in touch with Rob Porter, the former White House staff secretary who stepped down after allegations that he had abused his two former wives came to light, according Dan Webb and Tom Buchanan Latest Lawyers to Decline to Join Trump's Legal Team Two more high-power attorneys have had to turn down President Donald Trump. Tom Buchanan and Dan Webb confirmed to The Daily Beast that Trump reached out to them about representing him, and that they couldn't do it.
Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King is facing heat after someone managing his campaign's Facebook page posted a meme on Sunday criticizing a Parkland student for donning a patch of the Cuban flag. "This is how you look when you claim Cuban heritage yet don't speak Spanish and ignore the fact that your ancestors fled the island when the dictatorship turned Cuba into a prison camp, after removing all weapons from its citizens; hence their right to self defense," the meme said alongside an image of Cuban-American Emma Gonazlez, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, speaking at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington on Saturday.
'She can describe him intimately': Stormy Daniels' lawyer says she was ready to discuss intimate details of her alleged affair with Trump and more evidence will be released in coming weeks BREAKING NEWS: Federal Trade Commission will investigate Facebook over privacy - knocking billions off the value of Mark Zuckerberg's firm IBM boss joins Tim Cook in calls for more oversight following Facebook data scandal, after the Apple CEO warned 'profound change is needed' REVEALED: How Facebook logs ALL your phone calls and texts - but the social media giant insists the function has always been 'opt-in only' Apple's Steve Jobs tried to warn Mark Zuckerberg about privacy issues in 2010 when he said policies should be spelled out in 'plain English and repeatedly' Facebook is still not being 'fully forthcoming' about its data leak, Senator Mark Warner says as he calls for Zuckerberg to testify 'and ... (more)
Facebook is facing a global firestorm after reports a data research firm connected to the 2017 trump campaign illicitly harvested personal data from 50 million users. 'Each time, as I listen and fall under their spell I become a different man - I'm convinced that I have become taller and nobler and better looking all of a sudden.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg should testify before Congress about privacy protections in the wake of revelations data from 50 million users was shared without their knowledge, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said Sunday. In an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation," Warner said Zuckerberg has to go beyond the full-page ad he placed in British and U.S. newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, to apologize for the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Canadians have long been the targets of data harvesting, from credit cards keeping tabs on users' shopping habits to the personal information on warranty cards being used by companies to advertise replacement goods. In recent years, the availability of big data and breakthroughs in computing technology have allowed advertisers and political actors to crunch huge amounts of data and, through social media, micro-target narrow demographics in their bid to either boost sales or expand their political power.
For years, Megan Boler's research focused on the power of social media as a democratizing force, giving voice to the voiceless and empowering everyday people to come together and participate more meaningfully in how they are governed. But the University of Toronto social justice professor said that even in the heady days of the Arab Spring and Obama's social media-aided ascendency to the White House, there were slivers of concern about how the technology might be abused.
A 51-year-old man drove a flaming minivan loaded with propane tanks and ga... Investigators are working around the clock to learn why a 51-year-old man with no known ties to terrorism drove a flaming minivan loaded with propane tanks through a major Northern California Air Force base. Investigators are working around the clock to learn why a 51-year-old man with no known ties to terrorism drove a flaming minivan loaded with propane tanks through a major Northern California Air Force base.
A gun-wielding extremist unleashed bloodshed in a quiet corner of south... . This image posted on Saturday, March 24, 2018 by the Gendarmerie Nationale on it's Facebook account shows a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Arnaud Beltrame.
Oregon's attorney general says she is reviewing whether to launch an investigation of Facebook, including whether it violated a state law that protects online customers' private information. Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum told The Associated Press that she and several other state attorneys general are drafting a letter to Facebook, asking about a leak of Facebook customers' data without their knowledge or consent.
As anyone who's uploaded an ill-advised photo from a college party knows, Facebook is where your old mistakes come back to haunt you years later. That turns out to hold just as true for the company itself - a fact executives at the behemoth social network have been discovering to their chagrin this week, amid international furor over the political strategy firm Cambridge Analytica's illicit access to a vast trove of Facebook user data.
The Norwegian ski r... . FILE - In this Feb. 12, 1994, file photo, Britt Pedersen, right, an Olympic medalist in 1984 and 1988, hands the Olympic Torch to ski jumper Stein Gruben, left, as Gruben prepares to ski down a ski jump during openin... .
'Sex on the first date, unprotected romps many dozens of times and treated like a prostitute': Playboy's Karen McDougal lifts lid on 'TEN-MONTH affair' with married Trump and why SHE ended it Mother of Maryland high school shooting victim, 16, who was gunned down by jilted ex reveals her daughter is 'brain dead' and will be taken off life support Trump FIRES his national security advisor H.R. McMaster and brings in Bush's U.N. ambassador John Bolton in ANOTHER White House shake-up 'I wouldn't want it done to me': Playboy bunny Karen McDougal fights back tears on CNN as she apologizes to Melania for having 10-month affair with the President China hits back at Trumps trade offensive with $3bn list of 128 US goods including pork, apples and wine that may now face higher tariffs Are you struggling to lose weight? Nutritionists reveal 10 easy food swaps that will help save you time, money - ... (more)
Following the revelation that personal data from some 50 million Facebook users ended up in the hands of political operatives, Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, said Thursday he would like to see "more aggressive" government oversight of social media businesses. Stewart, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said Facebook has opted to send attorneys or other staff to represent the company in previous committee hearings focused on the social media company's conduct and policy, but after the seismic fallout from the data mishandling, it is time for Zuckerberg to put in an appearance.
In this Feb. 21, 2016, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2016 event in Barcelona, Spain. Breaking more than four days of silence, Zuckerberg admitted mistakes and outlined steps to protect user data in light of a privacy scandal involving a Trump-connected data-mining firm.