Sentences with phrase «political ads bought»

The most pointed exchanges were aimed at Facebook, which acknowledged on Monday before the hearings that more than 126 million users potentially saw inflammatory political ads bought by a Kremlin - linked company, the Internet Research Agency.

Our weak campaign finance laws and a commercial media that counts on huge revenues from political ads bought by corporate - sponsored candidates have put our democracy up for sale to the highest bidder.

The study doesn't cover every cable viewer in America: While the Federal Communications Commission requires networks to file reports on political ad buys, it doesn't require cable companies to do the same.

Facebook plans to hire 1,000 more human moderators to protect election integrity, make all ads transparent to everyone rather than visible just to those targeted, and increase scrutiny on political ad buys.

Not exact matches

Prosecutors alleged that those indicted attempted to interfere through social media by buying political ads on Facebook, along with YouTube and Twitter, to spread disinformation.

Asked what it does to monitor foreign propaganda or prevent the buying of illegal political ads, Facebook merely pointed out its terms of service, which require advertisers to comply with «all applicable laws and regulations.»

Facebook announced today that its internal investigation revealed fake Russian accounts bought at least $ 100,000 of political ads during the 2016 election season.

To reduce Russian interference to buying political ads with rubles is to skate over the complexity of this issue: how do you know what is a political ad, for one, and simply looking at currency is almost certainly a relatively useless signal, for another.

Had Facebook banned Cambridge Analytica at the time, it wouldn't have been able to buy ads directly on behalf of political campaigns with which it worked.

April 6: Facebook says it will require admins of popular pages and advertisers buying political or «issue» ads on «debated topics of national legislative importance» like education or abortion to verify their identity and location — in an effort to fight disinformation on its platform.

A lot of the steps are things Facebook has already talked about «like fact - checking stories that show up in News Feed and adding stricter requirements for advertisers who buy political ads on the social network.

Most people didn't spend much time thinking about how a political ad in their news feed got there, or who was behind it until Russians used Facebook's automated ad - buying system to influence American voters.

Some of the steps being contemplated by Facebook and regulators could close loopholes that political campaigns have exploited in Facebook's ad - buying system.

Big buys on other political sites, of course (Drudge is always a hit on the Right), but don't forget the physical world, like buying large display ads in the Capitol South and Union Station Metro stations.

Where campaign dollars used to be spent on direct mail and television ad buys, their thinking goes, modern political infrastructures should be spending money on YouTube pre-roll video ads, search engine optimization, promoted Tweets and Facebook posts.

The 2004 election cycle saw a dramatic rise in the number and size of nonprofit organizations that bought TV ads, organized voter turnout drives and conducted political «education» campaigns that were effectively working on behalf of (or against) one candidate or party, and because they used «soft money» in the process, their donors weren't limited in how much they could give and didn't fall under the strict disclosure rules required when trying to influence an election.

The goal is to be able to approve political ads 24 hours per day, knowing that campaigns will be flooding the system with new and amended buys.

Clearly, it's illegal for foreigners to buy political ads, but is it illegal to sell ad space for political ads to foreigners?

The anti-charter school union — which has close ties to Mayor de Blasio and the Democratic establishment in Albany and City Hall — also spent $ 3.9 million on political activities and lobbing and bankrolled $ 1.8 million on TV ad buys.

Advocates of what has come to be known in Capitol shorthand as «WIGS» have launched a new Website that's coupled with a «significant» (no specifics available on that) on - line ad buy across on political blogs and on wine and food blogs.

The CLF buy comes a day after a separate political committee announced a six - figure ad buy touting Curbelo's record on climate change.

In the latest rollout of initiatives to be included in his State of the State address, Cuomo called for requirements on websites and other digital platforms that run New York political ads to disclose who purchases them and to make «reasonable efforts» to ensure they are not being bought by a foreign interest.

First, broadcasters are mandated to offer political candidates the lowest unit rate when they are buying ad time, a courtesy they are not required to extend to party committees.

Two days later, NYCLASS gave the money to a political action committee that bought TV ads attacking rival Christine Quinn for opposing the ban.

His chief political consultant, Roger Stone, would not say how much was being spent on the three new ads, but said, «We're putting them up at saturation levels, a very heavy buy.»

The ad started running just two days after Rothenberg Political Report's Nathan Gonzales tweeted that the NRCC made a $ 1.5 million media buy in the 24th District.

Earlier this week, Rothenberg Political Report's Nathan Gonzales reported that the NRCC's independent expenditure program had made a $ 1.5 million ad buy in the 24th District race.

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.

September 27, 2014 • Why do advertisers love buying time for political ads during Detroit Tigers baseball games?

Now they're expanding that to include anyone who buys an ad about «issues» — as in, political topics debated across the country.

To fight fake news and election interference, Facebook will require the admins of popular Facebook Pages and advertisers buying political or «issue» ads on «debated topics of national legislative importance» like education or abortion to verify their identity and location.

Facebook will then require entities that seek to purchase issues - based ads to first verify who they are and their location offline — similar to Facebook's announcement in October that those who buy ads that explicitly mention the names of political candidates would need to provide verification.

Zuckerberg also offered Facebook's clearest support yet for pending federal legislation that would require the tech industry to disclose more information about political ads, including who buys them, and retain copies of them for public inspection.

On Friday, just days before its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, is expected to testify before Congress, Facebook said it had started forcing people who want to buy political or «issue» ads to reveal their identities and verify where they are.

SAN FRANCISCO / WASHINGTON Facebook Inc backed for the first time on Friday proposed legislation requiring social media sites to disclose the identities of buyers of online political campaign ads and introduced a new verification process for people buying «issue» ads, which have been used to sow discord online.

Facebook reinvigorated the debate two months ago after it disclosed that Russian - linked Facebook accounts bought thousands of ads that sought to inflame social and political tensions before and after election.

Here's what's worth knowing: following the fall - out over Russian - bought ads in the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook said it created the tools needed to handle political ad spending better.

Yesterday, in the first of three hearings with Facebook, Twitter and Google, Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch admitted that his company doesn't know if North Korea or Iran bought political ads on Facebook, while admitting that other U.S. adversaries «certainly potentially» could.

Well, to start, we know that Facebook, unlike a small - market TV station, didn't care about Russians buying political ads, even when they paid in rubles.

The advertisements came to light a couple weeks ago when Facebook revealed that the Russian agency had bought in excess of 3,000 ads targeting both political and social issues in the United States.

This information is useful to advertisers, who want you to click on their ads and buy goods, and, in the case of Cambridge Analytica, it's useful to dark entities that want to sway your political opinion and even influence your behaviour.

The steps Zuckerberg announced Thursday - which included efforts to improve the review of political ads and enhance transparency about who buys them - drew some praise from lawmakers who recently had expressed frustration with the company.

Russian - linked online advertisements have snowballed into a new bill called the Honest Ads Act that would force tech companies like Google and Facebook to disclose when political advertisements are bought on their platforms.