Sentences with phrase «profile political scandal»

With unrestricted access to Anthony Weiner's New York City mayoral campaign, this film reveals the human story behind the scenes of a high - profile political scandal as it unfolds, and it offers an unfiltered look at how much today's politics are driven by an appetite for spectacle.

It has been argued that, following a series of high - profile political scandals over the Code (David Blunkett resigned for a second time over a conflict of interest; and Tessa Jowell's husband was implicated — separately — in a furore over his financial dealings), that it should be administered by a more impartial figure than the Prime Minister.

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Early this morning, The New York Times Magazine published an extensive, 8,400 - word profile of former Congressman Anthony Weiner, his wife Huma Abedin and their life since an infamous social media - induced scandal destroyed his political career.

Cuomo did expose a massive pay - to - play state pension fund scandal that felled a number of high - profile individuals, including former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi and his long - time political advisor, Hank Morris.

The ClimateGate scandal, as it is being called, has the hallmarks of a major news story: private emails purporting to show unethical or illegal behavior supplied by a hacker or whistleblower, high profile scientists like James Hansen and Michael Mann, and a potential conspiracy to distort science for political gain.

Lydia successfully acted for political risk insurers in the London Market defending a complex and high value ($ 15million) arbitration claim brought by an international bank relating to a high profile Kenyan oil scandal.

Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal has everything: peculiar billionaires, a once - adored startup turned monolith, a political mercenary who resembles a Bond villain and his shadowy psychographic profiling firm, an eccentric whistleblower, millions of profiles worth of leaked Facebook data, Steve Bannon, the Mercers, and — crucially — Donald Trump, and the results of the 2016 presidential election.

Cambridge Analytica, the political - data firm hired by the Trump campaign that's been implicated in a scandal involving the illegitimate harvesting of more than 50 million Facebook user profiles, did not improve its public standing Monday.

Cambridge Analytica is reeling in the wake of a scandal in which a whistleblower alleged the political analytics firm illicitly obtained Facebook data from more than 50 million profiles, and used this information for its work on the 2016 US presidential election.

In the wake of the Facebook scandal, with 50 million users potentially having their data passed along to Cambridge Analytica and used for political profiling, many have called on people to #deletefacebook.

Or the data could leak to companies to create profiles for use in political campaigns, as happened with the growing Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The recent Facebook data scandal, where 50 million users potentially had their private data passed along to Cambridge Analytica and used for political profiling, has caused irreparable damage to the Facebook brand and user trust is rapidly dropping.