Sentences with phrase «engulfed by controversies»

The social networking juggernaut found itself engulfed by controversies over fake news, electoral interference, privacy violations, and a broad backlash to smartphone addiction.

Entering the race last week, he was immediately engulfed by controversy over past statements voicing opposition to marriage equality and a woman's unfettered right to choose.

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AggregateIQ is also under investigation by privacy commissioners in Ottawa, B.C. and the United Kingdom for its alleged role in the controversy that has engulfed Cambridge Analytica, which has been accused of improperly using private Facebook information from millions of users to influence voters and give the «Leave» side a win in the U.K.'s 2016 Brexit referendum.

MOSCOW — A decision by Facebook to block a page used to rally Russian opponents of President Vladimir V. Putin has engulfed the world's largest social networking site in political controversy and raised accusations that it censors content on behalf of the authorities here.

Museums around the world are wrestling with the implications of a decision, by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, to indefinitely postpone a Chuck Close exhibition because of allegations of sexual harassment involving potential portrait models that have engulfed the prominent artist in controversy.