Sentences with phrase «foreign election meddling»

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Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, who hosted the event, said G7 ministers expressed deep concern about the «despicable» nerve agent attack in Britain and Russia's efforts to destabilize democracies by meddling in elections.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's team, who is looking into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, have asked questions about Kushner's interactions with potential foreign investors, the Times said.

We still don't know (but presumably Mueller does) why Mike Flynn, Trump's chief foreign policy adviser during the campaign and his short - lived national security adviser, was talking during the transition to the Russian ambassador about lifting sanctions Obama had imposed in retaliation against Russia's meddling in the election.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to assure U.S. lawmakers who are worried that Russia and other foreign powers will use the social media network to meddle in the upcoming midterm elections.

«I don't want Russia or any foreign entity to meddle in our election any more than any other American,» said Parscale.

To apologize for Facebook's missteps, reassure Congress that Facebook intends to stop foreign powers from using its service to meddle in American elections and detail the company's plans to better protect its users» privacy.

Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to stop foreign operatives from meddling in U.S. elections but has admitted he's not sure whether Facebook can prevent the problems of the 2016 presidential campaign from recurring in this year's elections.

«We don't know what we'll find but if Russia or any other foreign country is meddling in our elections, we would have to take very severe sanctions against them,» Schumer said.

Cuomo is proposing a measure that seeks to counter foreign meddling in elections after Russia was accused of attempting to sway the outcome of the 2016 elections.

Both also provide detailed accounts of how the companies» security operations dealt with foreign interference and fake accounts in the lead - up to the 2016 presidential election, as well as the respective steps they are taking to prevent foreign meddling in the future.

In the hope of avoiding future foreign meddling in elections, as was seen in 2016 US presidential campaign, Facebook announced today (April 6) some of...

The interest in getting more information on how these companies left the doors open for voter manipulation across both sides of the aisle gets to the heart of why Russian election meddling is so troubling: If powerful foreign adversaries are working to sway American voters, it doesn't matter what team you're on.

Executives from Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR) and Google (GOOGL) testified before Congress Tuesday in the first of three hearings this week into how foreign nationals used social media to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.

Facebook has rattled investors in recent months with a series of announcements in response the platform's role in enabling fake news, filter bubbles and foreign meddling in the U.S. election.

The 33 - year - old started adopting a more apologetic rhetoric in early 2017 following the initial controversy caused by numerous reports about the role Facebook played in foreign misinformation campaigns aimed at meddling with the last U.S. presidential election and the backlash prompted by his initial response to the allegations, which was to assert that the very notion of Russian or other agents being capable of using Facebook to influence the stateside democratic process is «pretty crazy.»

The Senate Intelligence Committee offered recommendations for securing elections and implied that the Trump administration needed to take a harder line against foreign meddling.

Russia has denied meddling in foreign election campaigns, although it has been directly accused of interference by US intelligence as well as by France and Germany.

Recent developments in the ongoing investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 elections have raised interesting questions about the obligations of the current President — or any President — in a situation where a foreign government or its agents have interfered with the American political process or used the Internet in other ways to harm...

To apologize for Facebook's missteps, reassure Congress that Facebook intends to stop foreign powers from using its service to meddle in American elections and detail the company's plans to better protect its users» privacy.

To some observers, the revelations about the firm's practices fit a broader narrative of foreign meddling and manipulation into the 2016 U.S. election.

Moscow has repeatedly denied meddling in foreign elections and Ukraine's internal affairs as well as the involvement in the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal in the UK, saying London lacks evidence to support its claims.