Sentences with phrase «political ads purchased»

Twitter will need to explain to Congress how its platform was used by Russian trolls attempting to influence the U.S. presidential election, and Facebook ought to make political ads purchased by fake Russian accounts public, the senator said.

The role Facebook and social media played in the 2016 election — particularly the issue of political ads purchased by Russian troll farms and the spread of disinformation to sow division — has been an area of interest for both House and Senate investigators into Russian meddling in the presidential race.

Facebook disclosed last month that it had identified more than $ 100,000 worth of political ads purchased by a Russian company linked to the Russian government.

Facebook disclosed last September that it had identified more than $ 100,000 worth of political ads purchased by a Russian company linked to the Kremlin.

Calling the identity piece «much tougher,» Warner admits that he is «hoping that these platform companies come up with some ideas» for tracing and attributing political ad purchases.

Not exact matches

If a user were seeking to find out who purchased a political ad on Facebook, or had determined a foreign national had purchased a political ad and wanted the FEC to take action, they could file a complaint with the commission.

Facebook's analysis found that a pro-Kremlin group in Russia purchased $ 100,000 in political ads during the election, according to a company blog post.

«Whether it's allowing Russians to purchase political ads, or extensive micro-targeting based on ill - gotten user data, it's clear that, left unregulated, this market will continue to be prone to deception and lacking in transparency.»

The Honest Ads Act would require social media companies to disclose what groups are running political advertisements and make «reasonable efforts» to ensure foreign governments and agents aren't purchasing ads on their platforAds Act would require social media companies to disclose what groups are running political advertisements and make «reasonable efforts» to ensure foreign governments and agents aren't purchasing ads on their platforads on their platforms.

The president has responded harshly toward Republican congresspeople whom he considers insufficiently supportive of his agenda, even going so far as to meet with their primary challengers, while a pro-Trump political action committee at one point purchased, then withdrew, campaign ads against a senator who was wavering on the Senate GOP's health - care bill.

The Honest Ads Act would require social media companies to disclose which groups are running political advertisements and make reasonable efforts to ensure foreign governments and agents aren't purchasing ads on their platforAds Act would require social media companies to disclose which groups are running political advertisements and make reasonable efforts to ensure foreign governments and agents aren't purchasing ads on their platforads on their platforms.

The findings revealed that political ads from U.S elections worth $ 100,000 were purchased between June 2015 and May 2017 by a Russian «troll farm» called the Internet Research Agency.

«Whether it's allowing Russians to purchase political ads, or extensive microtargeting based on ill - gotten user data, it's clear that, left unregulated, this market will continue to be prone to deception and lacking in transparency.»

Kate Kaye's picked up on a story that bombarded the e.politics bunker with at least half a dozen Google Alerts this morning: Twitter has decided not to allow political campaigns to purchase «Promoted Tweets» through the end of this political cycle, which effectively cuts campaigns off from the microblogging site's foray into ad - supported content.

Fascinating: a political party founded in the 19th century is using an email list to raise money over the Internet based on a newspaper print ad purchased by a political organization that was founded ten years ago in part as an email list... the mind boggles.

Earlier this month, Facebook said it would turn over data on some 3,000 ads purchased by a Russian entity that appeared to inflame political divisions during the campaign.

«Whether it's allowing Russians to purchase political ads, or extensive micro-targeting based on ill - gotten user data, it's clear that, left unregulated, this market will continue to be prone to deception and lacking in transparency,» Warner said on Saturday.

The plan would also require digital platforms to maintain a public file of political ads in order to make sure fact - checkers have access to them and make reasonable efforts to ensure foreign entities aren't purchasing the ads.

The bill would require online platforms to provide verification that foreign individuals and entities were not purchasing political ads in order to influence voters.

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.

Gov. Cuomo called for requirements on websites and other digital platforms that run New York political ads to disclose who purchases them.

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.

The move follows Twitter's November announcement that it too would label political ads and show who purchased them.

«Whether it's allowing Russians to purchase political ads, or extensive micro-targeting based on ill - gotten user data, it's clear that, left unregulated, this market will continue to be prone to deception and lacking in transparency.»

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.

Facebook will soon require political campaigns, advocacy groups and other entities that purchase ads about hot - button policy debates to disclose more information about themselves, as the social giant looks to prevent malicious actors from secretly spreading disinformation on its site.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post that anyone who seeks to purchase a political or «issue ad» on the social network will need to verify who they are and where they are from.

In his statement, he added: «Whether it's allowing Russians to purchase political ads, or extensive micro-targeting based on ill - gotten user data, it's clear that, left unregulated, this market will continue to be prone to deception and lacking in transparency.»

One may argue political advertisements have long done just that — political campaigns in the past would purchase ads that voters would see on television or in print en masse in key areas.

Facebook said in September that users linked to a Russian troll farm spent $ 100,000 to purchase thousands of political ads on its site.

«Whether it's allowing Russians to purchase political ads, or extensive micro-targeting based on ill - gotten user data, it's clear that, left unregulated, this market will continue to be prone to deception and lacking in transparency,» he said, calling for lawmakers to pass stronger legislation.

He wrote on Twitter that «whether it's allowing Russians to purchase political ads, or extensive micro-targeting based on ill - gotten user data, it's clear that, left unregulated, this market will continue to be prone to deception and lacking in transparency.»

Democrats in the House and Senate are pushing the Federal Election Commission to develop new rules governing political advertising on social media after Facebook revealed that Russian trolls routinely purchased ads on its platform during the 2016 election cycle.

Seattle's election watchdog has slammed Facebook, saying that the social media platform has violated a law, by not disclosing the names of those purchasing political ads.

The Stranger claimed that the possible reason for the mismatched numbers was that many of those Facebook ads were purchased through third parties, like political consultants, and not directly through the candidates» own Facebook pages.

If it is true that Facebook ads can help businesses by altering people's attitudes about purchasing decisions, as some academic studies suggest, «it's Facebook's own data collection and the tools it makes available to clients that should be the target of scrutiny and perhaps regulation, both from a privacy perspective and for the sake of political transparency,» Bershidsky wrote.

The search giant also reportedly found another $ 53,000 worth of ads with political material that were purchased from Russian IP addresses with and paid for with Russian currency, though it it was not confirmed to be associated directly to the Russian government - backed efforts.

First, Facebook revealed that shady Russian operators purchased political ads via Facebook in the 2016...

New York, NY — Background: It's been widely reported that the far - right political organization Focus on the Family has purchased time for a 30 - second ad during the February 7, 2010, airing of the Super Bowl on CBS.