Sentences with phrase «election interference»

"Election interference" refers to any intentional actions taken to disrupt or influence the outcome of an election. This interference can involve various strategies, such as spreading false information, hacking computer systems, or tampering with votes. Full definition
Earlier this year, the group coordinated requests for a shareholder report on election interference and other platform challenges, as well as a separate request to establish an ongoing risk oversight committee.
These are designed to increase transparency and accountability, as well as prevent election interference.
This, he says, goes for fake news, foreign elections interference, hate speech and data privacy.
The company released a detailed plan of the things it plans to do to fight back against election interference.
Pompeo has repeatedly downplayed the seriousness of Russian election interference in public appearances as CIA director, contradicting the reported findings of the agency and others in the intelligence community.
Tackling this insidious form of election interference should be a top priority for Facebook, election experts say.
Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein says she and her campaign have finished turning over hundreds of documents to the top congressional committee investigating Russian election interference in 2016 — but she is refusing to hand over some documents that she argues are protected by the Constitution.
And there's a lot of hard work that we need to do to make it harder for nation - states like Russia to do election interference, to make it so that trolls and other folks can't spread fake news, but we can get in front of this.
The indictment, part of special counsel Robert Mueller's on - going investigation into possible election interference by Russia, linked 13 Russian nationals and three Russian groups to alleged misinformation campaigns spread in the U.S. public through Facebook (fb) and Twitter (twtr).
This is intended to help prevent elections interference by foreign actors — something Zuckerberg says is an «arms race.»
The Facebook data privacy and Russian election interference scandals show that artificial intelligence is still not up to many critical jobs in the technology sector.
Don't miss the March 9 and March 16 editions, which respectively analyze a warning from a top U.S. general that the government's response to Russia is not unified, and the Trump administration finally imposing sanctions on Russians for election interference.
The question is how much he and Cambridge Analytica knew of the Russian election interference operation in the United States and when did they know it.
It likely doesn't want to low - ball and have to revise the number upward later, as it did when it initially reported the Russian election interference ads were seen by 10 million users and later had to admit to congress it was actually 126 million when organic posts were included.
Two weeks ago Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a 9 - point plan to curb election interference, help people and investigators understand what happened, increase ad transparency, and improve election integrity.
Facebook detailed the extent of Russia's election interference campaign on Instagram today during its second congressional hearing.
Facebook released a detailed four - part plan to avoid election interference during the upcoming 2018 midterm elections.
The opening statement largely reiterates what happened with the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Facebook's plans to stop a similar event from happening, as well what the company has done in light of possible election interference before leading into questions.
Facebook released a detailed four - part plan to avoid election interference during the upcoming 2018 midterm elections.
Facebook has removed 70 Facebook accounts, 138 Facebook Pages, and 65 Instagram accounts run by the Russian government - connected troll farm and election interference squad the Internet Research Agency.
He believes Facebook is wising up after election interference and fake news plagued the 2016 U.S. presidential election, saying «Facebook is finally coming to recognize the responsibility that they have to shape public discourse.»
In February, Special Counsel Robert Mueller charged a Russian troll farm — which spread disinformation and fake ads around the time of the 2016 election and beyond — with election interference.
This system can only work if Facebook is stringent about identifying and removing bad actors from their systems, which is already a gamble with the high - profile problem of US election interference given their extreme delay in acknowledging any problem at all.
As the FBI's investigation into Russian election interference reaches a fever pitch, Facebook rolled out a new News Feed alert Monday night.
Congress gave Facebook, Google and Twitter until today to detail plans for improved transparency around election interference, so we'll see if Google and Twitter come out with their own disclosures.
Before recent revelations about alleged election interference, much of the wariness about social media was limited to non-millennial generations.
If Facebook can demonstrate that it wasn't completely asleep at the wheel regarding election interference, it could get softer treatment than if Congress thinks it was caught completely off - guard.
In the latest press conference, he has said that Facebook is committed to stopping election interference and manipulation of users, but the battle wages on indefinitely.
In a wide - ranging interview on Vox's The Ezra Klein Show podcast, Zuckerberg discussed election interference, the handling of user data and privacy, the proliferation of fake news, and what to do when your company — with more than 2 billion users — reaches a size and scale where the consequences for failure have a massive impact.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday he sees combating election interference as one of his «top priorities» this year.
President Donald Trump says it's «disgraceful» that a list of questions the special counsel investigating Russian election interference wants to ask him have become public.
The revelation of Trump's request to McGahn comes as special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's election interference gets ever closer to ensnaring the White House.
The Trump administration's announcement Thursday of new sanctions against 19 Russian nationals and five Russian entities marks the US's boldest response to Russia's election interference since President Donald Trump took office.
Russians indicted in election interference used false documents to maintain PayPal and cryptocurrency exchange accounts, the indictment said.
Facebook's struggles to contain the privacy and linked Russian election interference headlines underscore a big trend in technology careers that is still being sorted out and spent heavily on by major players.
Perhaps most importantly, Congress and the public need to be fully informed about the steps the companies are taking to eliminate election interference on their platforms, including, but not limited to, interference by trolls and bots — and why they expect these steps to work.
Google's near - monopoly status has drawn the ire of many politicians and pundits; together with Facebook and others, the firm is also grappling with accusations of abetting election interference and terrorism.
In the wake of waves of criticism, Facebook continues to institute more changes to its platform — including new stringent rules for those placing issue - based ads — in an effort to thwart future election interference.
After last year's fiddling in the conference arrangements election, election interference seems a yearly event.
Almost everything about Michael Flynn's guilty plea to perjury and his cooperation agreement with the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference suggests that it is part of a much bigger picture, legal experts said on Friday.
Things like smartphone addiction, false stories and election interference leave some tech executives regretful about what they've created.
If reports emerge of further election interference despite Facebook having two years to implement safeguards, it could be hit with significant public backlash and potential government regulation.
Even as they skewered Facebook for being «dismissive» early on and Twitter for essentially copying Facebook's homework in its report to Congress a few weeks ago, the lawmakers appeared hopeful that cooperation would only improve as the depth of Russian election interference becomes more widely understood.
One of the nation's largest pension funds, it was a lead filer of a shareholder proposal in December that urges Facebook to establish better policies for addressing election interference and hate speech, and to provide shareholders with reports «reviewing the efficacy of its enforcement of its terms of service related to content policies.»
On deleting Russian trolls: Not only did Facebook delete 135 Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to Russian government - connected election interference troll farm the Internet Research Agency, as Facebook announced yesterday, Zuckerberg said Facebook removed «a Russian news organization that we determined was controlled and operated by the IRA.»
Facebook is now on a mission to thwart future election meddling, and be as transparent as possible about previous election interference.
That's important, because paid reach and reshared posts by other users are how many of the 146 million Facebook and Instagram users encountered election interference content.
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