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Election meddling by Americans appears to have become rarer in recent decades, though such covert operations sometimes don't come to light for years.

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Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, who hosted the event, said G7 ministers expressed deep concern about the «despicable» nerve agent attack in Britain and Russia's efforts to destabilize democracies by meddling in elections.

Ryan's retirement announcement was preceded by a string of tweets from Trump, who touched on subjects including special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian election meddling and the response to a suspected chemical attack in Syria on Wednesday.

And yet over a year since the election meddling took place, little has been done to counter efforts by Russia to intervene in future elections that are already underway.

This year's F8 comes amid backlash against Facebook over user privacy and election meddling, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which data from up to 87 million users was inappropriately obtained by a third party.

Rick Gates, the former Trump campaign adviser, is expected to plead guilty on Friday in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to a letter obtained by ABC News.

In just a few months, we have learned that Flynn lied to Mike Pence, Vice President - elect, about obtaining a security clearance for Flynn's son during the presidential transition; that during the same period, as President Obama was imposing sanctions on Russia for election meddling, Flynn communicated with the Russian ambassador about those sanctions, hinting that President Trump would take a softer line, and then lied to Pence about it (and stood by while Pence publicly repeated that lie); that Flynn was not truthful when questioned by the FBI about the same topic; and that Flynn spoke at a gala for RT, the Kremlin - backed propaganda network and received payments from RT, but dissembled about the source of the payments and seems to have failed to follow U.S. regulations about reporting them.

The FBI was acting as part of a probe related to Cohen by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who were acting on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election as well as potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

In an indictment brought Friday by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, PayPal has become the latest tech company pulled into the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Thursday's sanctions target Russians indicted last month as part of the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's election meddling on charges of conspiracy to interfere in the election by waging a social - media influence operation to sow discord and sway public opinion in the US in favor of Trump.

An ad created by the pro-Trump Great America Alliance — a nonprofit «issues» group that isn't required to disclose its donors — casts Comey as a «showboat» who was «consumed with election meddling» instead of focusing on combating terrorism.

Currently, the President - elect is an ongoing spat with the intelligence communities over claims by the FBI, Homeland Security, and others that Russia hacked the email of American politicians in a bid to meddle with the U.S. election.

By the time it received Steele's dossier in September 2016, the FBI had already been investigating Russia's election meddling for two months and had begun looking into possible ties between Trump campaign officials — like Page — and Russian actors.

Lynch leaves office following a nearly two - year tenure marked by massacres carried out by violent extremists, including the shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida; persistent hacking from overseas, including Russian government efforts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election; and an election - season investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server that entangled the Justice Department in presidential politics and led to criticism for her ill - timed meeting on an airport tarmac with former President Bill Clinton.

International Iran urged by UN to respect environment activists after wildlife campaigner death, The Guardian Moscow says it has evidence of Western meddling in Russian election, Reuters

In October, NBC News reported that Cohen was questioned by congressional investigators digging into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

«Meddling in elections within the U.S., or any other nation for that matter, by another country is the new norm and will continue for as long as there is a chance of success,» Lee Munson, security researcher at Comparitech, told Newsweek.

According to a White House statement, Mike Pence spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi by telephone to discuss the «upcoming May elections in Iraq, reports of Iran attempting to meddle in Iraq's election and government formation, and the need to ensure free and fair elections that include Iraq's citizens displaced by the fight against ISIS».

East Aurora political consultant Michael Caputo will be interviewed by staffers from the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday in his second appearance before congressional panels probing Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

The first sentence stemming from Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling was handed down by a federal judge in Washington.

The U.S. Senate voted 92 - 5 to confirm Christopher Wray, a former high - ranking official in President George W. Bush's Justice Department, to head up the FBI, replacing James Comey, who was canned by Trump over the investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election.

He joined a handful of Republicans on Sunday in blasting President Donald Trump's personal lawyer — and by extension, the president himself — for suggesting that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III should shut down his investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The digital ad disclosure reforms come after a 2016 presidential election that fueled concerns of social media meddling by Russia in an effort to inject fraudulent information into the political bloodstream.

Nana Wiafe Akenten III's open declaration of support for President Mahama, appears to be in defiance of a charge by the overlord of Asanteman, Otumfou Osei Tutu II, who told chiefs in the Ashanti Region not to meddle in politics nor openly indicate their political leanings before, during or after the upcoming general elections.

(right) speaks on Capitol Hill on June 28, 2017 as the committee conducts a hearing on Russian intervention in European elections in light of revelations by American intelligence agencies that blame Russia for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.

The investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election has drawn a special prosecutor: Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Attorney General Jeff Session was interviewed last week by Mueller's team as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The CIA and FBI say the Russians meddled in the elections by hacking Democratic National Committee emails and other files to help President - elect Donald Trump in the campaign.

Prodded by Stone over the course of two years, Putin confronts a host of critical topics in candid detail, including his long - term grip on power, his personal relationships with Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump, Edward Snowden's asylum in Moscow, as well as allegations of election meddling and fostering turmoil in Syria.

And for good measure, news reports continue to surface regarding Russia's meddling in U.S. elections and the cybersecurity threat posed by China.

Both Vekselberg and Intrater have donated to Trump and both attended his inauguration, according to The New York Times, which also reports that both men have since been interviewed by special prosecutor Bob Mueller's office, the team in charge of investigating Russian attempts to meddle in the 2016 election.

The social network is in the eye of a controversy storm, with fake news, Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, and misuse of personal data by Cambridge Analytica swirling around Menlo Park.

Last November UK prime minister Theresa May publicly accused Russia of seeking to meddle in elections by weaponizing information and spreading fake news online.

Starting at the end of October last year, Facebook (and Google and Twitter) testified in front of Congress about possible Russian election meddling enabled by their platforms.

Facebook was already being scrutinized by lawmakers regarding Russian meddling on its platform leading up to the 2016 elections.

The role Facebook and social media played in the 2016 election — particularly the issue of political ads purchased by Russian troll farms and the spread of disinformation to sow division — has been an area of interest for both House and Senate investigators into Russian meddling in the presidential race.

The 33 - year - old started adopting a more apologetic rhetoric in early 2017 following the initial controversy caused by numerous reports about the role Facebook played in foreign misinformation campaigns aimed at meddling with the last U.S. presidential election and the backlash prompted by his initial response to the allegations, which was to assert that the very notion of Russian or other agents being capable of using Facebook to influence the stateside democratic process is «pretty crazy.»

Even if Facebook never complies, the exchange offered just one example of some of the tough demands made by lawmakers frustrated that the company — and its peers, Google and Twitter — didn't do enough to spot and combat Russia's efforts to meddle in the 2016 election.

Indeed, Zuckerberg's initial dismissal of claims that fake news and Russian meddling may have in any way influenced Trump's shock election in the US later that year was understood to have led to an inner rebellion at the social network by engineers who disputed this.

The live interview was the first by a senior Facebook executive since the social media giant last month told congressional panels investigating allegations of Russian meddling during the election that it had found 3,000 politically divisive ads believed to have been bought by Russia.

Russia has denied meddling in foreign election campaigns, although it has been directly accused of interference by US intelligence as well as by France and Germany.

The warrant obtained by Mueller means his team now has more information to look into how Russia used social media to meddle in last year's presidential election.

At a hearing with the top lawyers from Facebook, Google and Twitter about Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota began by emphasizing the stakes involved.

Maybe if we all concentrate with Facebook to address this issue of the Russians meddling with our election process, we can conveniently forget the real (and much more alarming) issue of undue influence in our Federal Government by Big Money Interests like the MIC.

When asked by CNN whether he thinks bad actors already are using Facebook to meddle in the upcoming midterm elections, Zuckerberg said: «I'm sure someone's trying.

As part of its ongoing probe into Russian election meddling, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have released a «representative sampling» of Facebook and Instagram ads allegedly purchased by Russian trolls during presidential campaign season.

The world's largest social media company has been hammered by investors and faces anger from users, advertisers and lawmakers after a series of scandals about fake news stories, election - meddling and privacy.

(THE CONVERSATION) The U.S. has been rocked over the last two years by claims that the Russian government directly attempted to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.

Trump's latest tweet attack was Monday morning, shortly after Blumenthal spoke on CNN about Russian meddling in last year's presidential election and «potential collusion by the Trump campaign and then obstruction of justice.»