Sentences with phrase «election interference ads»

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.

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.

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When it comes to election interference, Zuckerberg's testimony says advertisers promoting political or issue ads will have to be authorized by confirming their identity, location and who paid for each ad.

In October, Facebook turned over to Congress copies of 3,000 ads that it were most likely bought by people in Russia, and in November, representatives from Facebook — as well as Google and Twitter — testified before the congressional committees investigating Russia's alleged interference in the election.

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.

At the same time, in an update on parallel measures it's taking to fight election interference, Facebook says it will launch a public archive in the summer showing «all ads that ran with a political label».

The House panel released a sampling of the ads purchased by the Russians on the day of the hearing, and promised to release all 3,000 soon afterwardto give the public a more complete picture of the election interference.

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.

The statement added that RT, which was named in January in a US intelligence report on election interference, spent at least $ 274,100 in 2016 for 1,823 tweet ads or «promotions» that «definitely or potentially targeted the US market.»

Criticizing federal inaction on Russian interference in U.S. elections, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democrat - led Assembly said they plan to try to pass a law in New York that would require social - media companies to disclose who paid for their ads.

Referencing Russian interference in the 2016 elections, Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie teamed up to call for passage of a state bill that would require social media companies in New York to disclose who paid for online political ads.

In his post today, he's even come out in support of pending transparency - in - advertising legislation: «Election interference is a problem that's bigger than any one platform, and that's why we support the Honest Ads Act.

To fight fake news and election interference, Facebook will require the admins of popular Facebook Pages and advertisers buying political or «issue» ads on «debated topics of national legislative importance» like education or abortion to verify their identity and location.

Goldman, vice president of Ads, and Himel, vice president of Local and Pages, said that the social media platform was «slow to pick - up foreign interference in the 2016 US elections.

«Election interference is a problem that's bigger than any one platform, and that's why we support the Honest Ads Act,» Zuckerberg said.

This definition, Ravel said, is not going to catch new forms of election interference, such as ads placed months before an election, or the practice of paying individuals or bots to spread a message that doesn't identify a candidate and looks like authentic communications rather than ads.

At the time, Facebook turned in information about these ad buys to special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the election.

But then came the fake news, News Feed addiction, violence on Facebook Live, cyberbullying, abusive ad targeting, election interference and, most recently, the Cambridge Analytica app data privacy scandals.

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.

He said this verification was meant to prevent foreign interference in elections, like the ads and posts from so - called Russian trolls before and after the 2016 presidential election.

«Election interference is a problem that's bigger than any one platform, and that's why we support the Honest Ads Act,» Zuckerberg said Friday in a Facebook post.

The desire for growth, keeping users hooked on the newsfeed, and the need to make ad - based cash, is also what made possible the Russian meddling in the US election — that includes their ability to create and share fake news and buy ads on the network without any actual interference.

He said the issue of election interference is bigger than any one platform and that's why Facebook supports the Honest Ads Act to help raise the bar for all political advertising online.

The ads were sometimes politically themed and potentially reached tens of millions of Americans, raising questions about possible links to increasingly well - evidenced allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 elections — though the total spent ultimately paled in comparison to ad buys by Donald Trump's campaign, and could have ultimately been linked to some kind of marketing operation instead.

«Election interference is a problem that's bigger than any one platform and that's why we support the Honest Ads Act,» the executive wrote in a Facebook blog post Friday.

The company has turned over information on the Russia - backed ads to federal authorities investigating Russian interference in the US presidential election.

Senator Mark Warner, right, and Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, discussed online political ads and foreign interference in elections in Washington last week.

During her talk, Sandberg also confirmed that Facebook will support the plan of congressional investigators probing election interference to release the Russian - bought ads to the public.

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The first major legislative effort to rein in foreign interference in US elections will kick off Thursday afternoon on Capitol Hill, where Democratic Senators Mark Warner and Amy Klobuchar will field questions from reporters over a new bill crafted, they said, to «improve transparency of online political ads.»