Sentences with phrase «during the presidential election of»

Everything I ever needed to know about voting and evangelicals came from watching exit polls during the presidential election of 2004.

During the presidential election of 1988, a teenager named Donnie Darko sleepwalks out of his house one night, and sees a giant, demonic - looking rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds.

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But with great power comes great responsibility, which Facebook has learned devastatingly quickly as the social network found itself as a battleground of trolls and fake news during (and well after) the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Twitter is expected to give Congress an analysis of Russian activity on its social media site during the 2016 presidential election, a source told The Wall Street Journal.

While she has been on the Republican side of politics throughout her career, she publicly distanced herself from Donald Trump during his presidential election bid and supported Hillary Clinton.

We now know that Russian - sponsored trolls used phony accounts and networks of automated «bots» to stoke controversies and seed the news ecosystem with false narratives during the 2016 presidential election.

But during an interview with NPR on Friday morning, Ryan struggled to explain the difference between the allegations of sexual misconduct made against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, which Ryan said are credible, and those made against President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 26: A Muslim woman, Sarah A. Aly, Mentorship Coordinator at Network for Arab American Professionals, poses for a photo during an exclusive interview for «Anadolu Agency (AA)» on raising hate speech and islamophobia ahead of the US presidential elections in New York City, NY, USA on October 26, 2016.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shrugged off assertions that proliferation of hoax news stories on Facebook influenced the outcome of the U.S. presidential election Thursday during an on - stage interview at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay.

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.

During a surreal exchange, anchor David Muir grilled Trump over his continued spreading of the falsehood that millions of illegal ballots were cast in the 2016 election, which Trump had previously said was the reason for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton beating him in the popular vote by 3 million ballots.

She also supported Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential election, and ran for governor of California in 2010.

In September, Facebook said it had found evidence that fake accounts «likely operated out of Russia» purchased thousands of ads during the 2016 US presidential election.

Werner, a campaign strategist at Public Citizen, is attending the hearing where Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is testifying to draw attention to the social network's failure to stop the misuse of its site during the 2016 presidential election.

During the last presidential election, dozens of business leaders (Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Marissa Meyer, George Soros...) endorsed Democrat Barack Obama.

The company's focus in Washington has been more concentrated on fallout from its handling of Russian - linked propaganda used during the 2016 presidential election.

The FBI and several congressional committees are investigating how Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and whether associated of President Donald Trump may have colluded with Russian intelligence operatives during the campaign.

The data leak is just the most recent example of abuse on the site, following reports of Russian meddling during the 2016 U.S. presidential election and controversial Brexit vote in the UK.

Fears of seeming «political» during a presidential election year, sluggish growth in the Eurozone and a slowdown of the Chinese economic juggernaut will also keep Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Markets Committee from pulling the trigger more often; their vacillation will be one of the year's longest - running (and least loved) dramas.

For example, designing Star Trek Bears around the time of the new movie's release or designing bears to represent all of the candidates during the 2008 presidential election.»

Viral hoaxes on Facebook during the 2016 presidential election reveal the limits of campaign finance laws and regulations.

Facebook has come under intense pressure to tackle the spread of false stories, which came to prominence during the U.S. presidential election last year when many inaccurate posts were widely shared on it and other social media services.

During a relatively intimate dinner at the home of our chairman, a VC named Berry Cash, Kemp — who had failed in a presidential bid against George Bush in 1988 — thought it would be fun to go around the table and see who each of us thought the GOP should nominate for the ’96 election against Bill Clinton.

Mr. Kushner, 35, the husband of Mr. Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka, and an influential adviser to his father - in - law during the presidential campaign, had been planning to return to his private businesses after Election Day.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, pressed Mr. Zuckerberg on Russia's exploitation of the platform during the 2016 presidential election.

In Washington, both Democrats and Republicans have criticized President Trump for what they say is his reluctance to hold Russia accountable for its hacking of the Democrats during the 2016 presidential election; American intelligence agencies have also blamed the Kremlin for those attacks.

This memorandum provides Members an update on significant facts relating to the Committee's ongoing investigation into the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and their use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 presidential election cycle.

Macron's campaign was hacked shortly before the presidential election last year, but, thanks to France's election - silence law, it didn't have anywhere near the impact of the hack of the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election in the U.S..

It has been previously reported that a Russian troll farm spent $ 100,000 on Facebook advertisements to sway the mindset of the public during the 2016 presidential elections.

The social network has absorbed criticism in recent months regarding its personal data security liabilities, thanks mainly to the misuse of data from about 87 million people collected on the social network by a research firm, Cambridge Analytica, during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

On December 7 2013, Jeremy Bird, Barack Obama's National Field Director during the 2012 presidential election, gave a keynote speech on the fundamentals of community - based organizing to the Broadbent Institute's Municipal Political Action Conference.

And while Facebook (FB) and Google (GOOGL) have both taken criticism from lawmakers for their role in spreading misinformation during the 2016 presidential election, Amazon's size and questions about whether some of its business practices are anti-competitive and bad for consumers are not likely to go away in years to come.

As Breitbart News reported, the Washington Post and the Hill obtained a copy of the eight articles of impeachment drawn up by the conservative House Freedom Caucus against Rosenstein because he has not provided the documentation requested as part an investigation into FBI surveillance during the 2016 presidential election.

There is no dearth of strong opinions on the matter, as evidenced by the many vocal protests of trade deals in progress and the continuing protectionist discourse during the U.S. presidential election.

An investor selecting a portfolio according to the percentage of contributions given to the winner in a presidential election would have earned significant abnormal returns of up to 6.6 % per year during the first year after an election.

The hashtag #DeleteFacebook is trending since the news broke out that data of 50 million users were harvested by the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica during 2016 US presidential elections in a bid to manipulate votes.

Undocumented immigration became a hotly contested issue during the 2016 presidential election, inciting passionate responses from both sides of the political spectrum.

The mainstream media took no notice of a federal court filing that exposes a $ 84 million money - laundering conspiracy Democrats executed during the 2016 presidential election.

Twitter posted updates on its official blog regarding the investigation of Russian propaganda during the most recent presidential election.

Groups such as Catholics United and Faith in Public Life got off the ground during and just after the 2004 election when a Catholic Democratic presidential nominee - Sen. John Kerry - was hard - pressed to find Catholic support in the face of condemnations from some Catholic bishops over his support for abortion rights.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

There is no evidence that the offer was accepted, but the email containing the offer is one of tens of thousands of documents that have been turned over to special counsel Robert Mueller's team as part of the ongoing investigation into what, if any, collusion with Russia took place during last year's presidential election.

Next, Balmer campaigns with evangelicals during the 1988 presidential election and observes their support of candidates Kemp and Robertson and their opposition to abortion - on - demand.

I'm very uncomfortable with the official hierarchical church, often very ashamed of it, particularly lately — ashamed not only of the pedophilia scandal, but of the behavior of the American hierarchy during the presidential election.

During election years, the gala — an annual fundraiser for the Archdiocese of New York — typically features the rival presidential contenders as speakers.

Fani - Kayode, who was Director of Media and Publicity, Jonathan / Sambo Campaign Organisation, during the last Presidential election which Jonathan lost to President Muhammadu Buhari, in a statement said he read with amusement the allegation made in the media report.

Clearly he was an early and avid supporter of Barack Obama, but interspersing the 2008 presidential election with in - depth studies of Montgomery Meigs, the Quartermaster General of the Grand Army of the Republic during the Civil War, leaves the reader perplexed and thirsting for more, which is not provided.

«As Director of Media and Publicity of the Jonathan / Sambo Campaign organisation I received money on behalf of the Directorate of Media and Publicity which I headed from private individuals and companies during the election campaigns but these were not public funds but rather private contributions specifically for the Presidential and other campaigns.

Trump is under suspicion of colluding with the Russian government to gain an advantage during his presidential election, so any interaction between him and Russia is currently subject to intense scrutiny.

Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.