Sentences with phrase «shadowy russian»

Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that it has discovered it sold ads during the U.S. presidential election to a shadowy Russian company seeking to target voters, according to several people familiar with the company's findings.

Democratic lawmakers in recent days had demanded that Facebook be more open about what it knows and to dig more deeply into its troves of data to analyze the propaganda effort, which the company has acknowledged involved at least 470 fake accounts created by a shadowy Russian company that spent more than $ 100,000 targeting U.S. voters.

Two weeks ago, Facebook admitted that a «shadowy Russian company» spent $ 100,000 on political ads targeting US Facebook users during the 2016 election campaign.

Both characters do something to fall out of favor with their bosses very early in the novel, and spend the rest of their time actively hiding from society — Jessica on the run from a pair of embittered career government field agents and Ethan from a shadowy Russian capitalist who wants to hire him to add to his millions.

The National Security Agency used its public Twitter account to send roughly a dozen coded messages to a shadowy Russian who had attempted to sell them dirt on President Donald Trump, The Intercept and The New York Times reported on Friday.

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Then the Russian Business Network, a shadowy Moscow cyber - criminal group, came under suspicion in media reports.

Today it seems weirdly prescient, what with the shadowy American bureaucrats getting rich by colluding with entrenched Russian power brokers who are doing whatever they can to stay on top.

In one of the first 21st century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II.

Washington Free Beacon — 27 January 2015 Foreign Firm Funding U.S. Green Groups Tied to State - Owned Russian Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011....

And last week, the Washington Post reported that Facebook had run ads from shadowy, Kremlin - linked Russian groups that were apparently intended to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Now, Russian trolls say they have uncovered the digital currency pioneer's true identity, posting a screenshot of the shadowy figure they say is Nakamoto online.