Sentences with phrase «russian information operation»

«I agree that we need to work on diversity,» Zuckerberg said, although he said the 2016 postings stemmed from a failure to identify «the whole Russian information operation.»

As Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch was testifying before three congressional committees on Tuesday and Wednesday, fielding questions from a succession of irate and mostly tech - illiterate legislators, his boss was preparing to break it to investors that curbing Russian information operations and other forms of abuse on his platform will be expensive.

Not exact matches

Established in 2006 by Australian activist Julian Assange as a means to anonymously divulge sensitive information about countries and institutions, Wikileaks was best known for its revelations about U.S. military operations, diplomatic activities, detention camps and abetting of NSA leaker Edward Snowden — until 2016, when the site involved itself in the U.S. presidential election by releasing troves of Democratic party emails allegedly supplied by Russian operatives.

And anonymously sourced reports from McClatchy and Vanity Fair, among others, have said Mueller's team is looking into whether Trump's digital operation provided information to Russians to help them determine which American voters to target with their own digital efforts.

Zuckerberg said that one of his greatest regrets running Facebook is not identifying Russian «information operations» around the 2016 election fast enough.

The American military strike against Syria threatened Russian - American relations as the Kremlin denounced President Donald Trump's use of force and the Russian military indicated it would suspend an agreement to share information about air operations over the country that was devised to avoid accidental conflict.

Without even quite basic information about what took place, we were left to follow logical conclusions - that a former Russian agent of the type Vladimir Putin is on record saying he'd like to get was attacked using a method previously adopted in Russian operations.

The question is what role Cambridge Analytica, which boasted a deep hand in shaping the Trump campaign's online information operations, played in helping leverage the Russian information — and if they knew what they were doing.

The question is what role Cambridge Analytica, which boasted a deep hand in shaping the Trump campaign's online information operations, played in helping leverage the Russian information — and whether it knew what it was doing.

The indictment of 13 Russians in the operation of a «troll farm» that spread false information related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election has renewed the spotlight on the power of «fake news» to influence public opinion.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, then Secretary General of NATO, told reporters in 2014, «Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so - called nongovernmental organizations — environmental organizations working against shale gas — to maintain dependence on imported Russian gas.»

A Russian intelligence source claimed the FSB had new information which could cast light on who was behind the elaborate operation.

The United States is still reeling from the effects of the 2016 presidential election, which the American intelligence community says was disrupted by Russian hacking and information influence operations.