Sentences with phrase «future election meddling»

Facebook is now on a mission to thwart future election meddling, and be as transparent as possible about previous election interference.

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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 meddling.

And yet over a year since the election meddling took place, little has been done to counter efforts by Russia to intervene in future elections that are already underway.

Ahead of his meeting with Putin, the president is sending strong signals that he would welcome more election meddling in the future.

The chairman of the Democratic National Committee stood behind the party's lawsuit against Russia and President Trump's campaign, calling it a necessary move to deter Russia from meddling in future elections.

But they also paint a worrisome picture for future elections: The newest portrayal of potentially deep vulnerabilities in the U.S.'s patchwork of voting technologies comes less than a week after former FBI Director James Comey warned Congress that Moscow isn't done meddling.

The four prosecutors involved in the first Silver trial have left the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan — Carrie H. Cohen entered private practice; Andrew D. Goldstein joined the office of Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election; Howard S. Master became a senior enforcement counsel for the New York attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman; James M. McDonald now heads enforcement for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — and a new team has taken over.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand teamed up with a leading Republican colleague, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, to propose an independent commission to investigate how Russian cyberattacks affected the 2016 election and how such meddling can be prevented in the future.

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...

Earlier this year, after revealing that advertisers linked to Russia had spent thousands of dollars on ads influence public opinion in the run - up to the 2016 US presidential election, the company insisted it would prevent democratic meddling in the future itself.