Sentences with phrase «influence over voters»

It's also been accused of using its illicit Facebook data to exert untoward influence over voters.

Not exact matches

CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially expressed skepticism that Facebook could have been used to influence voters, but a series of revelations over Russian meddling have caused the company to make big changes in recent months.

On Friday, Mueller issued indictments for 13 Russians and three Russian companies for using propaganda tactics over social media to influence US voters in the 2016 presidential election.

He would abolish quotas, let independents vote in primaries, and eliminate caucuses, which magnify the influence of dedicated activists over regular voters.

The national Democratic Party's hierarchy acknowledged the «perceived influence» of insiders over voters in picking a presidential nominee, but don't know yet how to settle an issue that bedeviled the bitter nomination fight between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in 2016.

The Central Regional Director of the NCCE, Nicolas Ofori Boateng who made the observation, said the situation had influenced voter turnout at district level elections over the past years, as the electorates had lost confidence or felt betrayed by the assembly members.

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

It would also be an affront to trade unions and working class voters who would lose the one influence they have over the metropolitan elites who currently wield power in all major parties.

Over the next several months, we are making it our responsibility to hear from experts, and educate voters, about how New York's current system is undermining our best efforts to keep big money — and big influence — out of politics.»

The Welsh Lib Dem team have been furiously trying to convince voters that the local elections are not a good time to be influenced by events in Westminster, for fear of a backlash over Nick Clegg's support for Tory - led government policies.

At the same time, Fiala may be hoping voters want a lawmaker in Albany — regardless of party — who can bring the same level of contacts and influence in state government that Libous had amassed over decades in power.

«AV will give voters a greater sense of influence and ownership over the political process,» he said on Tuesday.

Only just over a fifth of Lib Dem voters think their party has much influence within the coalition — indeed Conservative voters are more than twice as likely to think Nick Clegg is influential than his own supporters.

Haley's campaign announced that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will visit South Carolina to campaign for Haley along the coast June 18, though how much influence Romney has over GOP voters there is an open question after his dismal finish in the state's 2008 presidential primary.

He also cited the coalition's plans to introduce a marriage allowance — a key Tory commitment which Clegg had dismissed as «patronising» prior to the general election — suggesting voters now saw the Lib Dems as «people who are giving power to the Conservatives without any influence over policies they used to oppose».

A Clinton aide said the plan was a «a key plank of Clinton's plan to challenge the stranglehold that wealthy interests have over our political system» and would allow «Americans to establish common sense rules to protect against the undue influence of billionaires and special interests and to restore the role of average voters in elections.»

In 2015 a UKIP parliamentary candidate was questioned over allegations he tried to influence voters with sausage rolls.

The company is also being investigated by U.K. authorities over its data acquisition methods and possibly illegal efforts to influence voters to vote in favor of Brexit.

Over a wildly accomplished seven - season run, «The West Wing» influenced not just a whole generation of viewers and voters, but artists and office - seekers as well.

Next week, Chicago voters will exercise their distinctive brand of school democracy by choosing more than 5,000 fellow citizens to serve on panels that wield potent influence over their neighborhood schools.

«Parents can be a powerful constituency of voters with influence over elected officials.

Not because climate scientists — over 97 percent of whom believe that human activities influence the climate — have found new data rebutting the science, but because polls show climate change dropping off the list of voters» priorities.

The scandal erupted over the weekend when The New York Times and UK media reported that Cambridge Analytica tried to influence American voters using information improperly gleaned from 50 million Facebook users.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially expressed skepticism that Facebook could have been used to influence voters, but a series of revelations over Russian meddling have caused the company to make big changes in recent months.

The New York Times and the U.K. - based Observer / Guardian reported over the weekend that Facebook has suspended the account of Cambridge Analytica, the firm founded by Steve Bannon with funding from famed Republican donor Robert Mercer with the purpose of building «tools that could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior,» according to the Times report.

His group replicated the methods of psychographic profiling over two years, firstly examining differences in personality traits, thinking styles and cognitive biases between voters in the UK's 2016 EU referendum and then devising their own campaign to test whether it might be possible to identify, target and influence voters.

The consequences of that shift are now coming into sharper view amid a growing scandal over Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm tied to the Donald Trump presidential campaign that accessed details from 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge in an attempt to influence voters.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal is now raising questions over the tactics used to try to influence voters in the Brexit vote.

When asked if the Commission is concerned over allegations of data being harvested to build psychological profiles of voters to influence them, Rawat said, «Definitely.

Facebook is proposing only narrow countermeasures that address the specifics of the furor over Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that's accused of improperly obtaining data from some 50 million Facebook users for the purpose of influencing voters.

In addition to creating the bogus accounts, which were designed to spread misinformation and influence US voters, Facebook said the Kremlin - linked Internet Research Agency spent $ 100,000 on over 3000 ads displayed around the time of the election.

Many voters only vote in national elections, but state and local offices have direct influence over policies and practices that impact access to reproductive health care and sexuality education in schools.