Not exact matches
Those systemic problems have dramatically worsened since the presidential
election, with Facebook
coming under intense fire on multiple fronts: Russian operatives using Facebook to manipulate voter
sentiment during the presidential
election, Facebook accounts spreading «fake» news, the potential for its advertising system to be used for racist targeting and its slow response to violent or harmful content on the platform.
Today's Marist poll finds voter
sentiment hasn't changed much when it
comes to the upcoming midterm
elections, with voters closely divided on whether they're willing to support incumbents or vote for new faces.
It is clear that part of Corbyn and his team's strategy over the
coming months and years is to attempt to exploit the anti-establishment
sentiment that contributed to the delivery of Brexit and the
election of Donald Trump as the next American president.
By Thursday, National Review had
come up with the counternarrative to the sudden anti-Facebook
sentiment among progressives this week, pointing out that the Obama administration had been widely lauded during the 2012
election for (in part) using the Facebook profiles of a wide swath of people not just to predict how they might vote in the
election, but how to turn those electors into someone who might vote for Obama.
Although both of these legislative proposals are actively being discussed, the
sentiment coming out of Washington is that nothing will be accomplished until after the
election, which is still nearly an entire year away.