Sentences with phrase «american voters»

Russian agents abused the company's systems to target millions of American voters with disinformation during the 2016 election.

And now, thanks to a whistleblower and two stunning reports in the Observer and the New York Times, we know that one of those developers siphoned data on more than 50 million Facebook users and shared them with the Trump campaign's voter targeting firm, Cambridge Analytica — a company that has bragged it has psychological profiles on 230 million American voters, which it uses to target people online with emotionally precise digital messaging to influence elections.

Kogan shared that data with Cambridge Analytica for its growing database on American voters.

Getting that data «allowed us to move into the hearts and minds of American voters in a way that had never been done before,» Wylie said in an interview with the UK's Channel 4 on Saturday.

And finally, what would Mark Zuckerberg, the presidential candidate, do with all the data Facebook collects about its users who happen to be registered American voters?

Kogan then shared that data with Cambridge Analytica, which was «building psychographic profiles» on American voters in order to target them with ads.

In the event, Chmieliauskas» suggestion to clone Kosinski's app led to CA's data licensing relationship with Kogan, whose own personality test app — thisisyourdigitallife — was built bespoke for its project and successfully used to harvest data on 50M + Facebook users so CA could, in turn, build psychological profiles on millions of American voters.

Over subsequent months, Dr. Kogan's work helped Cambridge develop psychological profiles of millions of American voters.

No one in this larger group of 30 million knew that «likes» and demographic data from their Facebook profiles were being harvested by political operatives hired to influence American voters.

Supporting industrial hemp means supporting true reform because it is inherently local and environmentally friendly in nature, values that are becoming increasingly important to American voters.

These are facts not lost on American voters.

If you are against them, like the majority of the American voters, then it's not gridlock, but simply a policy decision to NOT decarbonize.

A new national API poll shows that American voters have serious concerns about the Renewable Fuel Standard and its mandates for ever - increasing levels of ethanol in the nation's fuel supply.

Increasing numbers of American voters think global warming is happening, and many say the issue will influence how they vote in November, according to our national survey conducted in March of 2016.

The New York Times: In Climate Deal With China, Obama May Set 2016 Theme WASHINGTON — President Obama's landmark agreement with China to cut greenhouse gas pollution is a bet by the president and Democrats that on the issue of climate change, American voters are far ahead of Washington's warring factions and that the environment...

Those are the terms chosen by young American voters to describe climate change deniers in a poll conducted for the League of Conservation Voters.

Increasing numbers of American voters think global warming is happening, and many say the issue...

Both sets of proposals — from the American Petroleum Institute (API) and from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy — make clear it is up to American voters and U.S. policymakers to determine what sort of energy future we will have.

This all fits into the framework that is becoming nauseatingly familiar to American voters: billionaires pull the strings, and our voices don't matter.

At the very least, American voters deserve to know who is behind these efforts.»

American voters and their common sense understand this.

All this while, poll after poll shows that the vast majority of American voters (Republicans as well as Democrats) strongly support campaign finance disclosure.

The responses to our questionnaire provide the American voters with useful insight into how some of the candidates will handle the most pressing energy issues if elected.

The Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, considered by many to be the most far - reaching climate regulation ever set forth by the U.S. government, has barely registered in the minds of most American voters.

Making big investments to get off oil, making clean energy alternatives widely available and cheap, and creating millions of new jobs in clean energy industries is a winner with American voters and can carry the whole suite of policies that we need to address global warming.

Drought denial's tougher to pull off than climate denial.Photo: Luke RobinsonWhere and how will climate change first affect large numbers of American voters?

MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, who was an advisor to Obama on the Obamacare Act mocked the «stupidity» of American voters and boasted of the Obama Administration's ability to take advantage of it.

Again, leaving us with only the flimsy hypothesis that Russia managed to accomplish a mass brain washing of American voters.

Second, climate change remains relatively low on the list of concerns of American voters or populace and importantly the general media, despite a possible tic upwards by «Sandy.»

So the next time a green activist demands America pay more for energy, opt out of air conditioning or divest from fossil - fuel stocks, the American voters should simply say, «You first.»

At the very least, American voters deserve to know who is behind these efforts [to deny scientific findings about global warming].

The legislation is supported by United Egg Producers (which represents egg farmers producing 88 % of the nation's eggs), the Humane Society of the United States, National Consumers League, Consumer Federation of America, American Veterinary Medical Association, American Association of Avian Pathologists, American Humane Association, and the overwhelming majority of American voters.

What the horse slaughter lobby lacks are elected officials willing to sacrifice votes by leading the charge for an industry that 3 / 4ths of American voters believe is abominable.

And there's profound resonance for American voters, too, in what Mark Leibovich in The New York Times has called «a strong populist allergy to elitism within the GOP coalition» that has animated the Trump candidacy.

Of course, a minority of American voters thought Trump was a good idea, too, so perhaps there might be a market for this.

American voters have historically not paid much attention to education policy — perhaps this is because they continue to be mostly satisfied by the schools their children attend even as they grow dissatisfied by American education more generally.

BAEO poll (Aug. 2015) showed the majority of African - American voters surveyed support charter schools — Tennessee 67 %, Louisiana 65 %, New Jersey 65 %, Alabama 54 %.

Watchdog.org: Poll: African - American voters support school choice more than pols http://bit.ly/2cJGmXW

Scott saw his support from African - American voters more than double, and Chavous cites Crist's opposition to school choice as a key reason why.

The fact that our African American voters have expressed more concern about their schools and more support for the state test is telling.

Other issues that ALEC, the group funded by the ultra-conservative Koch Brothers, pushes includes Arizona's anti-immigrant law, Florida's «stand your ground law,» that seeks to protect people who shoot «suspicious individuals,» and the flurry of laws aimed at suppressing Latino and African - American voters.

Ms. Dixon was part of a team of civil rights attorneys representing African - and Haitian - American voters in NAACP v. Hood (a class action suit that arose out of the 2000 general elections), and she served as co-counsel in Anderson v. Jackson on behalf of African - American residents who challenged the demolition of public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Polls by the American Federation for Children, a pro-voucher group that DeVos helmed until she became Trump's nominee, show that American voters are significantly less likely to support «vouchers» than «choice.»

PEFNC.org: Where do North Carolina African - American Voters Stand On Parental School Choice?

Student inquiry and the research that comes from such inquiry is critical to producing the next generation of American voters.

But one supposedly controversial issue that has broad support among both white and African American voters is school choice.

Michael Taylor of the African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey and We Raise NJ coalition member remarked, «The fact that our African American voters have expressed more concerns about their schools and more support for the state test is telling.

Another primary goal of the privatization movement is to drive a wedge between two pillars of the Democratic Party: African American voters and teachers unions.

Ronald Reagan came to North Carolina on October 8, 1984, a month before American voters would decide whether to give him another four years in the White House.

American voters are becoming increasingly aware of the No Child Left Behind Act, but a growing minority of them are deciding they don't like it, a new poll sponsored by the Public Education Network and Education Week suggests.