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In this Dec. 4, 2017, photo, people walk by Google offices in New York. Google is blaming "vandalism" at Wikipedia for search results that incorrectly said the ideology of the California Republican Party included "Nazism."
Facebook's long-awaited change in how it handles political advertisements is only a first step toward addressing a problem intrinsic to a social network built on the viral sharing of user posts. The company's approach, a searchable database of political ads and their sponsors, depends on the company's ability to sort through huge quantities of ads and identify which ones are political.
A solemn tribute from one soldier to another: Chief of Staff John Kelly makes a quiet visit to his son's grave at Arlington accompanied by his wife and President Trump on Memorial Day 'You are going to get fired. Bye Maria.
Last October, federal agents served a search warrant at the home of Matthew Johnston, where they found a cache of weapons and explosive devices and counterfeit items he was using to pose as an immigration officer, according to a federal affidavit. Going to be deleting a lot of people off of Facebook.
New rules requiring political campaigns to verify their identities before getting authorization to buy ads on Facebook are preventing some candidates from getting their message out in the critical last days before June primary elections. And one congressional candidate says it may tip the election to his opponent.
Facebook launched new disclosures regarding political advertisements on the social media platform Thursday. Ads on both Facebook and Instagram will feature a disclosure tag that states who paid for the ad, the company announced in a blog post.
Twitter says it will require U.S. political advertisers to identify themselves and certify that they are in the U.S. by verifying a mailing address. The company says the new rules announced Thursday will apply to any advertising that seeks to influence the outcome of an election.
Former U.S. FBI Director James Comey said that social media companies needed to "worry" about foreign political propaganda on their networks, but he had few ideas on how to counter it. In an interview with Reuters, Comey also said he would be leery of the Federal Bureau of Investigation trying to track propaganda in the United States, let alone take action against it, while acknowledging that it was a major problem for the US political system.
On Sunday, a post was shared on the Oklahoma County Republicans' Facebook page seemingly comparing Democrats to Nazis. The original post was first shared by another page 'Direct to the People,' listing side-by-by comparisons of Nazis and Democrats.
Steven Pinker is famous for observing that human material well-being has undergone tremendous, and vastly underrated, improvement over the last few hundred years. "We've got this problem called obesity," the famous Harvard linguist and psychologist wryly notes.
Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election - WASHINGTON - Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son. One was an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation.
The Justice Department and FBI are investigating Cambridge Analytica, the now-shuttered political data firm that was once used by the Trump campaign and came under scrutiny for harvesting data of millions of users, The New York Times reported Tuesday . The Times, citing a U.S. official and people familiar with the inquiry, reported federal investigators have looked to question former employees and banks connected to the firm.
Facebook has suspended roughly 200 apps suspected of misusing data they have gathered on the social media site, a vice president at the company said on Monday. The company has investigated "thousands of apps" and "around 200 have been suspended," Ime Archibong, vice president of Product Partnerships at Facebook, wrote in a blog post .
U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford has dropped the world's most widely used social media platform, but he's adding another way for people to reach out and speak up. The Jonesboro Republican now invites constituents to contact his office by text at 292-6747.
While the Legislature this week will consider candidates to fill out the remaining term of disgraced former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the bigger fight promises to be over which candidates will appear on the ballot. New York City Public Advocate Letitia James was believed to be the favorite of the Legislature for the interim appointment, but she ultimately didn't apply.
The Russian company charged with orchestrating a wide-ranging effort to meddle in the 2016 presidential election overwhelmingly focused its barrage of social media advertising on what is arguably America's rawest political division: race. The roughly 3,500 Facebook ads were created by the Russian-based Internet Research Agency, which is at the center of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's February indictment of 13 Russians and three companies seeking to influence the election.
House Democrats are criticizing Republicans for rushing to vote on President Donald Trump's plan to roll back $15 billion in previously approved spending for children's health insurance and other programs. GOP leaders say lawmakers could vote as soon as next week on the plan to "rescind" funding leftover from previous years.
Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit following revelations it collects text messages and phone calls via its smartphone apps on Android devices. The social network giant's actions "presents several wrongs, including a consumer bait-and-switch, an invasion of privacy, wrongful monitoring of minors and potential attacks on privileged communications" such as those between attorneys and clients or doctors and patients, the lawsuit alleges.
Democrats on the House intelligence committee have released more than 3,500 Facebook ads that were created or promoted by a Russian internet agency, providing the fullest picture yet of Russia's attempt to sow racial and political division in the United States before and after the 2016 election. Most of the ads are issue-based, pushing arguments for and against immigration, LGBT issues and gun rights, among other issues.