Sentences with phrase «for election news»

However, for election news in particular — a big part of last year's news agenda...

To distract you from checking blogs for election news (or trying desperately to ignore the pundits and speculation), I want to direct your attention to a fascinating interview with Elizabeth Gilbert — author of Eat, Pray, Love — over at The Rumpus.

The Internet has outpaced newspapers as the second most influential channel for election news coverage, after television.

Not exact matches

For instance, just after Obama's November 2008 election, U.S. News & World Report proclaimed that, «The Web, a perfect medium for genuine grass - roots political movements, is transforming the power dynamics of politiFor instance, just after Obama's November 2008 election, U.S. News & World Report proclaimed that, «The Web, a perfect medium for genuine grass - roots political movements, is transforming the power dynamics of politifor genuine grass - roots political movements, is transforming the power dynamics of politics.

That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy.

According to Fox News, the «Shark Tank» star on Sunday said that while he would not be interested in running for president himself in the 2016 election, he'd be interested in serving as running mate for either Clinton or Trump.

The CNN anchor moderated a debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney during the 2012 election and took a lot of heat for doing exactly what Fox News» Wallace has said a moderator should avoid.

Data journalism expert Jonathan Albright has also spent some time mapping the right - wing alternative media ecosystem, including the connections between fringe sites that were the largest channels for «fake news» reports during the election.

The arguments for deleting your account as your 2017 New Year's resolution are strong indeed, as Jake Swearingen points out in Select / All: Facebook was the chief venue for the spread of misleading fake news and pro-Russian propaganda that confused voters and may have helped tip the presidential election to Donald Trump.

< UPDATE: After plummeting overnight on the Trump election news, U.S. stock markets rallied and finished up for the day.

Since the election, groups on the right have called for boycotts of Kellogg's (for pulling ads from alt - right site Breitbart News), Starbucks (for vowing to hire refugees rather than jobless Americans), and Nordstrom (for dropping Ivanka Trump's clothing line), among others.

When accusations were flying at Facebook for allegedly helping spread fake news about the 2016 US election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded by saying the idea that Facebook had any serious impact on the election was a «crazy» one.

Here's a twist: Since the U.S. presidential election, younger Americans who hadn't typically turned to newspapers for their news are now doing so — at least to a handful of those papers — for political news.

The drugmaker's political action committee spent $ 405,000 on federal campaign donations and other political outlays last year, more than in 2016 — an election year — and nearly double its allocation for 2015, data compiled by Kaiser Health News show.

The social media company has been surrounded by negative news for much of the last 18 months, since news broke that Russian - linked groups allegedly hijacked its service to spread propaganda to try to influence the 2016 election.

Stewart's cable news targets include a CNN reporter who asserted that a loss for Scott Walker would be «one of the worst indignities for an election official,» and a Fox News host who asked a Wisconsin voter to compare the recall election to her experience living in communist Chnews targets include a CNN reporter who asserted that a loss for Scott Walker would be «one of the worst indignities for an election official,» and a Fox News host who asked a Wisconsin voter to compare the recall election to her experience living in communist ChNews host who asked a Wisconsin voter to compare the recall election to her experience living in communist China.

That's not good news for Goldsmith given the short space of time that remains until the election.

Prior to Fox 5 News, she served as online anchor for Rasmussen Reports where she covered the 2008 Presidential Election and established the company's online video network.

News feed optimizes for engagement [and] as we've learned in this election, bullshit is highly engaging

More than 71 million Americans watched election night coverage on broadcast and cable TV this week, with CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC pulling in more than 31 million viewers combined during primetime in a record night for cable nNews, and MSNBC pulling in more than 31 million viewers combined during primetime in a record night for cable newsnews.

«Brooke, I got my hands on this tape because I decided... to do real investigative journalism, because I was tired of watching how the news was reporting this issue,» Pollock said, before laying into the media for its handling of Donald Trump's candidacy and eventual victory in the 2016 election.

Twitter is betting that it can become a place for live video streams of all kinds, including sporting events like soccer and baseball, as well as news events like the Grammy Awards and the election campaign, where it partnered with a number of broadcasters to stream their coverage.

But the Pew report paints an interesting picture of how important the site is for its users as a source of news, and specifically news about the 2016 U.S. election.

Fox News «had a man on this morning who was a Democrat his whole life, he voted as a Democrat, but he voted for — I say «us,» I don't say «me» — he voted for us in the last election 2016,» Trump told supporters at the packed Covelli Centre.

«To be at the biggest name in news for the last month of what has been the craziest election in modern history is just a great opportunity for me and everybody on our team,» the former BuzzFeed staffer said.

The «fake news» revelations of the 2016 election have forced social platforms to take greater responsibility for publishing decisions.

Sad news today reported on the Times website, Yellen pronounces economy strong enough for interest rates to rise, though the article speculates not until after the election.

His stock response to the committee's concerns about divisive political ads was that Facebook believes «radical transparency» is the fix — also dropping one tidbit of extra news on that front in his written testimony by saying Facebook will roll out an authentication process for political advertisers in the UK in time for the local elections in May 2019.

He also posted testimony apologizing for Facebook's role in false news, data privacy leaks and foreign interference in elections, as his company announced that it would form an independent commission of academic researchers to study social media's impact on elections.

This, he says, goes for fake news, foreign elections interference, hate speech and data privacy.

What we know for sure is that the country's news media yet again has misread the meaning of a Canadian election.

I actually tend to agree with Zuckerberg's post-election comment — which he since apologized for — that it was «crazy» to think that «Fake News» influenced the election; my view is that Fake News is a symptom of a far more serious problem: filter bubbles.

«You need to also make sure that that voice is not used for foreign interference in elections or disseminating fake news.»

So apparently the only news outlet that called the election correctly was 24 Hours Vancouver, on the front page, in the ad paid for by the Liberals.

The survey of 925 Americans was conducted as new revelations surfaced that the company connected to the 2016 Trump campaign, Cambridge Analytica, inappropriately harvested personal information on millions of Facebook users The sharp rise in negative feelings is a significant departure from Facebook's standing prior to the 2016 election, when the rise of so - called Fake News and polarizing content led to calls for the company to take greater responsibility for the content on the popular social media site — or face government regulation.

That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy,» Zuckerberg said in opening remarks before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees.

Facebook has for months faced an uproar among users whose complaints range from the spread of fake news to the use of the network to manipulate elections and the harvesting of 50 million people's Facebook data by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

This would still allow fake news to flourish for most of the campaign, of course, but the candidates have enough time to respond to fake news that spreads weeks or months before an election.

The eve of the election was abuzz with news of the release of a video apology from a sixteen - year - old Taiwanese singer, Chou Tzu - yu, for waving the Taiwanese flag on South Korean TV.

Ari collaborated with Alec Ross on The New York Times bestselling book The Industries of the Future and served as Special Political Correspondent for Vice News during the 2014 midterm elections and as a correspondent for Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper, from 2003 to 2006.

This makes Latin America the perfect victim for people trying to tamper with elections by presenting propaganda as actual news.

The news comes a day after Hicks was interviewed for nine hours by the panel investigating Russia interference in the 2016 election and contact between Trump's campaign and Russia.

Earlier this month Denham told MPs on the DCMS committee that's investigating fake news that her office would be pushing for increased transparency around data flows and disclosure rules for digital political advertising — suggesting a code of conduct is needed to regulate the use of social media in political campaigns, referendums and elections.

Overall, the results show how divorced Facebook's user behavior is from the day - to - day news coverage blasting it for allowing Russian interference in US elections and for making us unhealthy zombie browsers.

When Facebook was first confronted with the possibility that fake news and propaganda on its platform may have swayed the election for Donald Trump, just days after the candidate's surprise victory, CEO Mark Zuckerberg strongly denied the idea, calling it «crazy.»

Zuckerberg's apology follows news last week that information from more than 50 million Facebook users was obtained without permission by Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics consultancy hired by the Trump campaign for the 2016 presidential election.

Canadian Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly has said she is looking for ways to foster cultural diversity, while protecting the political process from the type of fake news that had a large impact on the recent U.S. election.

On Wednesday night, Giuliani told Fox News» Sean Hannity that Trump had reimbursed attorney Michael Cohen $ 130,000 for paying off Daniels shortly before the 2016 election.

Fake news was also a key issue in the 2016 vote, with special counsel Robert Mueller indicting 13 Russians in February for using bogus social media accounts to interfere in the election process.

Last week, the media stood by homophobic liar Joy Reid, dismissed allegations of misconduct against Tom Brokaw, gave Jake Tapper an award for fake news, used Michelle Wolf as a hate - avatar, destroyed an admiral with lies, and were caught colluding with the Deep State to overturn Trump's election.