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Hill investigators are still seeking a longer, more - detailed version of an investigative report into election meddling on the platform that Facebook concluded in April.

Thursday's sanctions target Russians indicted last month as part of the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's election meddling on charges of conspiracy to interfere in the election by waging a social - media influence operation to sow discord and sway public opinion in the US in favor of Trump.

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President Donald Trump this month imposed sanctions on Rusal, Russia's biggest aluminum producer, and some other companies, in response to Moscow's alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.

The indictment means that Trump can no longer credibly cast doubt on alleged Russian election meddling.

President Donald Trump condemned as «disgraceful» an FBI raid on the office and hotel room of his longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who paid $ 130,000 to an adult - film actress and who has been a key figure in the U.S. investigation into Russian election meddling.

In an interview with Axios's Mike Allen on Thursday, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said the social network owes America an apology for its role in enabling Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Election - meddling is «not something we want on Twitter,» the San Francisco - based social network said in an unsigned statement.

On Thursday, facing mounting pressure on his company from Congress, the Justice Department and others, a very serious - looking Zuckerberg took to Facebook Live and pledged to take a range of actions to make sure future elections, in the U.S. and elsewhere, will be safe from clandestine meddlinOn Thursday, facing mounting pressure on his company from Congress, the Justice Department and others, a very serious - looking Zuckerberg took to Facebook Live and pledged to take a range of actions to make sure future elections, in the U.S. and elsewhere, will be safe from clandestine meddlinon his company from Congress, the Justice Department and others, a very serious - looking Zuckerberg took to Facebook Live and pledged to take a range of actions to make sure future elections, in the U.S. and elsewhere, will be safe from clandestine meddling.

Last Thursday, moreover, both The Washington Post and The New York Times reported that Flynn had spoken with Russia's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, about the US economic sanctions on Russia before Trump was sworn in — including at least one call on the day President Barack Obama imposed new penalties on Russia for its election - related meddling.

Ryan's retirement announcement was preceded by a string of tweets from Trump, who touched on subjects including special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian election meddling and the response to a suspected chemical attack in Syria on Wednesday.

On Sept. 19, CNN reported that the RNC had paid $ 230,000 in August to two lawyers representing Trump in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Trump, in fits and starts, has indicated his support for the broad federal investigation of Russian meddling, but he has more often bristled at the notion that Kremlin operatives were working on his behalf or that his campaign coordinated with Russia to meddle in the election.

Trump and his supporters have seized on the memo to exonerate him in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Rick Gates, the former Trump campaign adviser, is expected to plead guilty on Friday in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to a letter obtained by ABC News.

Administration officials said Flynn had not discussed sanctions that had been imposed on Russia in part over election meddling.

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.

Obama administration officials told NBC News the White House believes its message was clear and effective and ensured there was no Russian meddling on election day.

The FBI was acting as part of a probe related to Cohen by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who were acting on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election as well as potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

Though the Trump White House has acknowledged that Russia meddled — while maintaining that it was not to help Trump and did not have an effect on the election's outcome — it has so far fallen short of making a specific statement or calling out Russia for its aggression.

An ad created by the pro-Trump Great America Alliance — a nonprofit «issues» group that isn't required to disclose its donors — casts Comey as a «showboat» who was «consumed with election meddling» instead of focusing on combating terrorism.

Trump's tweet on Obama follows a flurry of posts he has made since Friday's bombshell indictment of Russians accused of election meddling.

Partisan disagreements on the intelligence committee have escalated over the last year as Democrats have charged that Republicans aren't taking the panel's investigation into Russian election meddling seriously enough.

His presidency has taken the world on a wild political rollercoaster: From the travel ban to the repeal of DACA, the firing James Comey, and the investigation into Russian meddling in the election — it's been quite a year.

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.

Lynch leaves office following a nearly two - year tenure marked by massacres carried out by violent extremists, including the shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida; persistent hacking from overseas, including Russian government efforts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election; and an election - season investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server that entangled the Justice Department in presidential politics and led to criticism for her ill - timed meeting on an airport tarmac with former President Bill Clinton.

A little - known former prosecutor with a doctorate in medieval history will play a central role on U.S. President Donald Trump's legal team, as many top - tier lawyers shy away from representing him in a probe into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

When Trump finally acknowledged in early January 2017 that Russia meddled in the election, he tacked on an addendum: «Hacking's bad, and it shouldn't be done.

The CIA, meanwhile, waited until after the election to put forward an independent assessment of Russian meddling, the content of which was leaked to the press earlier this month via high - level officials briefed on the intelligence.

Indeed, the Trump transition team released a statement in December that appeared to cast doubt on the CIA's findings that Russia had meddled in the election with the specific purpose of damaging Clinton's candidacy and swinging voters towards Trump.

The actual impact of this meddling on the election's outcome is hard to firmly quantify.

Washington imposed sweeping sanctions on some of Russia's biggest companies and businessmen on April 6 to punish Moscow for its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The statement, delivered amid a bicameral congressional probe of Russia's meddling in the 2016 US election, preceded Johnson's scheduled Wednesday testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

The Justice Department on Friday handed down indictments to 13 Russian people and three Russian companies for meddling in United States political and election processes, the latest item in a litany of evidence that Russia, well, did it.

The tensions between India, and China and India and Pakistan, are nowhere near the tensions between Russia and the US, especially after US officials have accused the Russian government of meddling in the 2016 US Presidential election, and after DHS has banned the use Kaspersky products on government computers, accusing the Russian AV vendor of working with Russian intelligence to steal classified materials.

The indictment of 13 Russian nationals for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has reignited the debate on whether Facebook and other social - media giants are a threat to democracy.

This afternoon, members of the Senate will hear from Zuckerberg on data use, protection and privacy in the midst of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Russian election meddling.

[53] Recent examples illustrate how advertising tools on social media have been exploited to spread disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential elections and the Brexit referendum: «Russian Twitter Trolls Meddled in the Brexit Vote.

«Things happened on our platform that shouldn't have happened,» Sandberg said, referring to Facebook's role in enabling Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

March 14: The Federal Election Commission said it would start writing new disclosure rules for online ads in response to revelations Russian interests bought content on Facebook and other platforms in an attempt to meddle with the 2016 eElection Commission said it would start writing new disclosure rules for online ads in response to revelations Russian interests bought content on Facebook and other platforms in an attempt to meddle with the 2016 electionelection.

Here's how you get from Russian election meddling to North Korean meddling on a Fox News interview couch.

At a conference on Saturday in Munich, McMaster said that evidence of Russian meddling is «incontrovertible» — but the same day, Trump tweeted a correction, claiming that McMaster «forgot to say» that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted and that it was instead Hillary Clinton and Democrats who colluded.

Rosenstein was asked about investigations that go on for months or even years; if there is a precedent on how long an investigation should last and when would the American people get to know the results of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election that has been underway since May of 2017.

The United States imposed major new sanctions against Russia on Friday, striking at senior Russian officials and some of the country's biggest companies in one of Washington's most aggressive moves to punish Moscow for its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and other «malign activity».

(It's not clear exactly what the effect of Russian meddling was on the election outcome, and there is no evidence that Clinton's campaign worked with Russia to get her elected.)

What's next: Facebook, already dealing with a backlash over fake news stories and Russian meddling in the election, has another PR crisis on its hands centered on its advertising machine, which brought in $ 39.9 billion in revenue in 2017.

The House Intelligence Committee report released on Friday contained a new bombshell: after the 2016 election, wealthy donors paid a former Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) staffer $ 50 million to continue «exposing» Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Thursday on Fox News Channel's «Fox & Friends,» Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to step in with special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and end it.

Bharara, constrained from endorsements and opining as a federal prosecutor, has let his hair down on Twitter in recent weeks since he was fired President Donald Trump, posting pointed thoughts on issues ranging from the investigation into Russian meddling in the election to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handling of the MTA.

Voters in President Donald Trump's home state continue to hold an unfavorably view of him as a majority are concerned with reporters of Russian meddling in the election, a Siena College poll released on Thursday found.

East Aurora political consultant Michael Caputo will be interviewed by staffers from the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday in his second appearance before congressional panels probing Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.