Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has finally issued a statement on the user data misuse allegedly perpetrated by data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, which has been accused of harvesting data from more than 50 million Facebook users
during the presidential campaign in 2016.
But he has also come to the defense of the Obama administration in key times, including over the Iranian
threat during the presidential campaign, when Mitt Romney was aggressively courting Jewish voters.
Then, of course, it emerged that fraudulent headlines and bad actors had made easy work of Facebook users
during the presidential campaign for a mix of profit and international politics.
Since news broke over the weekend about Cambridge Analytica harvesting data from over 50 million Facebook
users during the presidential campaign in 2016, Facebook's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has been quiet.
President Donald Trump offered one major K - 12 education
proposal during the presidential campaign: a $ 20 billion plan that would reprioritize existing federal education funds to provide vouchers for private - school choice.
Barack Obama expressed concerns over mountaintop mining
during the presidential campaign last year, and both the coal industry and environmentalists have been anxious for months about how his administration might handle the issue.
For what Trump has pledged and promised to
do during his Presidential campaign represents a very real risk of severe political, climatalogical, physical, and economic harm for this country, her people, and to the people and living creatures of this world.
A former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Donald J. Trump sued on Tuesday to be released from a 2016 legal agreement restricting her ability to speak, becoming the second woman this month to challenge Trump allies»
efforts during the presidential campaign to bury stories about extramarital relationships.
President Obama's narrow victory among Catholic voters this week will be seen by many as a political loss for the U.S. Catholic bishops, who appeared to be openly opposing
Obama during the presidential campaign.
He issued the tweet after a news website, The Daily Beast, reported that Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix reached out to
Assange during the presidential campaign about the possible release of 33,000 of Hillary Clinton's missing emails.
Early - career scientists and engineers may be understandably apprehensive about change in Washington, particularly since «attention to
science during the presidential campaign was neither appreciable nor appreciative,» wrote Holt for Motherboard.
Goodman also linked the media's Standing Rock blackout to the national political media's silence about climate
change during the presidential campaign: «Not one debate moderator raised that as a question,» Goodman decried.
Trump had targeted both the tech industry and Wall
Street during his presidential campaign, but once elected, he tapped former investment bankers, hedge fund managers and private equity investors to join his administration — most notably Goldman Sachs's long - time chief operating officer Gary Cohn, who will now head the National Economics Council.
Trump embraced gun
rights during his presidential campaign, though he supported some gun control before he became a candidate, backing an assault weapons ban and a longer waiting period to purchase a gun in a 2000 book.
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during Presidential campaign year 2004, my associates and I were calling attention to an important book on the subject of «The Confessions of an Economic Hit - Man.»
Attorney General Jeff Sessions had two conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United
States during the presidential campaign season last year, contact likely to fuel calls for him to recuse himself from a Justice Department investigation into Russian interference in the election.
Trump's personal doctor, Harold Bornstein, released a
letter during the presidential campaign claiming the real estate mogul would be the «healthiest individual ever elected» and that his laboratory tests were «astonishingly excellent.»
«Recent news reports have revealed that Lt. Gen. Flynn was receiving classified
briefings during the presidential campaign while his consulting firm, Flynn Intel Group, Inc., was being paid to lobby the U.S. Government on behalf of a foreign government's interests,» said Cummings, the ranking Democratic member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
A similar phenomenon
occurred during the presidential campaign, when the Mexican peso swooned as Trump gained strength in the polls and other stocks fluctuated depending on which candidate was pulling ahead.
The charity watchdog's view stands in contrast to the way the foundation was
characterized during the presidential campaign, but it's consistent with the views of some who have been close to the Clintons over the years and have observed how the foundation operates.
Bharara was referring to the occasion in which former President Bill Clinton met with then - Attorney General Loretta Lynch on a tarmac in Arizona last
summer during the presidential campaign, an event that drew outrage among Republicans — including Trump — because the Justice Department at the time was investigating Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
Trump frequently villainized Garcia Zarate and cited Steinle's
death during his presidential campaign, using the case to bolster his argument for a border wall and aid his crusade against «sanctuary cities.»