Sentences with phrase «election platform last»

Mulcair's plan goes further than the cap and trade proposal advanced by late NDP leader Jack Layton in the party's election platform last spring.

Not exact matches

The Liberals last two election platforms felt like they were written for academics, not voters (It didn't help their last two leaders were, well, academics).

«Of the 282 accounts with non-zero karma, more than half (145) were banned prior to the start of this investigation through our routine Trust & Safety practices» said Huffman in the announcement, referring to an internal investigation that began last month, in response to «recent reports about the integrity of Reddit» regarding the scope of Russian election influence on various social media platforms, according to a previous announcement.

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less than a percentage point of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.

New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair used the club's stage in 2013 to reveal the party's energy platform for the most recent federal election; MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren pitched a Toronto casino from it that same year; Governor General David Johnston announced his new innovation awards program there last summer.

Trump also vented about the attention being paid to Facebook and other social media platforms after it emerged last month that Russian trolls capitalized on social media, and Facebook in particular, to sow discord during the election and spread pro-Trump propaganda.

Late last year, Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch joined lawyers from Twitter and Google to testify on the role the platform may have played in spreading viral disinformation during the 2016 election.

The Prime Minister thought everything was going as planned, when he announced last October, several measures promised in the 2011 Conservative election platform.

Although the Conservatives have made fewer announcements than the other parties since the election call, their policy platform really began last October.

Just last month The Intercept reported that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has also been using Facebook to do its «extreme vetting» dirty work, and it's been confirmed that Russian government officials utilized multiple social media platforms to influence the 2016 election.

Attorneys for the three social media giants testified before the House and Senate intelligence committees last Nov. 1 about how Russia exploited their platforms to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.

Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft spent a combined $ 14.2 million lobbying the U.S. government last quarter, as some in the tech industry began to weather an investigation into Russia's election meddling and others tried to battle a host of new regulations targeting their platforms.

As part of that investigation, the House and Senate intelligence committees pressed Facebook, Twitter and Google last year to provide information about how Kremlin - linked individuals and companies used the U.S. platforms to try to influence the election and sow discord among Americans.

Firstly, encourage the creation of a very serious review into what went wrong for the party at the last election so that mistakes in the message and machine can be dealt with; secondly, encourage the party to create a policy platform ruthlessly focused on generating popularity across the country to raise the party's standing in the polls; and thirdly, secure enough political support that they can ideally walk into Downing Street uncontested.

Both were featured in top social media site Mashable.com last night, in an article called 2012 Election: 3 Digital Platforms Poised to Change the Conversation, by Maegan Carberry.

Muhammadu Buhari was a presidential candidate in all the three times vying on the platforms of three different political parties and failed to win the contest until the APC leveraged the expertise of Axerold in the last presidential election in 2015 and won.

It is normal for them, particularly, the MPs since in the last election, Mr Dramani Mahama held their hands on campaign platforms and asked their constituents to vote for them,» he said.

Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries won election last night to one of three co-chairmanship positions atop the Democratic delegation's Policy and Communications Committee — which will craft the minority party's platform in unified Republican Washington.

He said, «A senator that won his seat on the platform of the APC chose to openly work for the Alliance for Democracy during the last governorship election.

The appeals were fallouts of the legal dispute over which of the candidates of the two factions was entitled to run the last Saturday's governorship election in Ondo State on the party's platform.

De Blasio had made the expansion of paid sick leave a central part of his platform during last year's election.

Mr. Powell said he hoped Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson, an African - American prosecutor who won election last year on a platform of police reform, would ultimately be able to bring charges against Mr. Liang.

Even though we all applauded the decision to go biometric in the last two elections, every objective observer knew we have already collected biometric details of citizens for the following purposes: national passports, the e-Zwich payments platform and the national identification system.

If Supervisor Gromack is serious about significant and lasting political reform in Clarkstown then he should acknowledge that he is three years late in accepting Ralph Sabatini's 2011 election platform and apologize to the 3,500 Clarkstown citizens who he referred to as a «fringe group».

And the most ardent supporter of climate change legislation in last year's presidential election, Bernie Sanders, ran on an anti-nuclear platform.

But Prime Minister Kevin Rudd won the election last year partly on a platform to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, and by a margin so large the media called it a «Ruddslide.»

One of the most contentious aspects of the last Federal election was the platform of the incumbent government, which included powers that allowed the government to strip Canadians of their citizenship based on national security.

Late last year, Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch joined lawyers from Twitter and Google to testify on the role the platform may have played in spreading viral disinformation during the 2016 election.

Facebook was heavily criticised last year for allowing Russian parties to disrupt the 2016 U.S. election using its platform, but the drama has intensified in recent weeks.

Starting at the end of October last year, Facebook (and Google and Twitter) testified in front of Congress about possible Russian election meddling enabled by their platforms.

Late last year, executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter showed up at congressional hearings to discuss Russian meddling online in the 2016 presidential election, putting faces to the tech platforms during criticism of their misuse.

And before the rise of the fake news phenomenon in the US during the last election cycle, these platforms had also been instrumental in spreading spurious information to influence Indian voters.

This is of course a part of the company's ever - changing posture with regards to its influence on the election: Shortly after Donald Trump was elected president last November, Zuckerberg scoffed at the notion that propaganda on his platform had any impact on the results — but this month he says Facebook intends to expand its election - integrity team by 250 employees.

Russia has denied Williamson's latest charge too — as it also did last year, when the UK prime minister directly accused Vladimir Putin of seeking to weaponize information in order to sew social division and influence elections in the West, via the medium of fake news posted to social media platforms.

«In October 2017, we removed Kaspersky's anti-virus software from the list of products that we make available to these users,» Facebook wrote in responses released by the panel from Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet's Google following the companies» congressional testimony last November about Russian attempts to use their platforms to spread disinformation during the 2016 US election.

Last week, Twitter agreed to hand over information to Congress about accounts on the platform that may have been used for malicious purposes or for misinformation during the election.

Stamos» departure was reportedly decided on last year, but the company decided to keep him on until August to help transition his duties to others — and so that it wouldn't look quite as bad for Facebook amid continued discoveries about Russia's abuse of the platform during the 2016 US election.