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.
«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.»
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.