Sentences with phrase «media during the political campaign»

(And if you think this problem sounds like the problem with the media during the political campaign just concluded, you're exactly right.)

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Prompted by the widespread Russian influence campaign that targeted nearly two dozen states during the 2016 presidential election and the proliferation of secretive political advertising on social media platforms like Facebook, Cuomo proposed and the state Legislature successfully passed the «Democracy Protection Act,» which prohibits foreign entities from creating independent expenditure committees or buying political ads, requires anyone who purchases an online political ad to register as an independent expenditure committee, and also requires online ads to include information about who paid for them, as is currently required of traditional media platforms.

Front and center during the two - day gathering were New York hedge fund executive Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah Mercer, Republican mega-donors who with their former political adviser Stephen K. Bannon helped finance an alternative media ecosystem that amplified Trump's populist themes during last year's campaign.»

The Circus: Inside the Wildest Political Show on Earth, Season 1, Episode 23: Mark McKinnon talks with New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters about Donald Trump's treatment of the media during his campaign.

During that time, Moskowitz has run the network with the ferocity and urgency of a political campaign, with City Hall press conferences attacking the mayor, selectively placed op - eds and leaks in friendly media outlets, and a robust lobbying infrastructure in Albany that has helped cultivate support from Republican legislators outside the city.

As Ouseley J noted, it was not disputed that the aim of «avoiding undue dominance of the political debate by wealthier groups... justifies a ban on broadcast media advertising during election campaigns».

Last month a former Cambridge Analytica (CA) employee, Chris Wylie, told a UK parliamentary committee that the London - based company, deeply embedded in the ongoing data mining scandal, had potentially shared some of its Facebook harvested data with the Canadian AggregateIQ consultancy, which is accused of targeting social media users for political campaigns — including during the 2016 US election and the UK's Brexit campaign.

The firm reportedly worked for multiple political campaigns, including for President Donald Trump's campaign during the 2016 election, and gathered data from social media accounts to develop a mechanism that would predict and influence the behavior of voters.