Sentences with phrase «to sway elections»

I'm not denying that they can sway elections in dramatic fashion, but it's not a majority.

That's why we use the college electorate, so 2 or 3 states can't sway an election.

It seems clear that a peer state actor could use more harmful and precise attacks to creatively sway elections.

These ads were traced back to hundreds of accounts and pages that were used to possibly sway the election.

possibly not one now at least not now if it helps sway the election away form the Islamist Obama.

Britain's Channel 4 has published an undercover sting video in which Cambridge Analytica executives boast of swaying elections in Africa and Europe through tactics including fake bribes and seduction.

Given the success of its campaign to interfere in the 2016 election, there's little doubt that Russia will try its hand at swaying elections in 2018 and beyond.

Both said emails between Donald Trump Jr. and a publicist who set up the meeting destroy the notion that there was no connection between the Trump campaign and Russian efforts to sway the election on Trump's behalf.

Last week, new details also emerged about how the Internet Research Agency, an infamous Russian «troll farm» located in St. Petersburg, undertook a massive and sophisticated effort to sway the election using Facebook.

This gives the site and its owner, Mark Zuckerberg, the potential power to shape public opinion or even sway elections.

Zuckerberg, lambasted over whether «fake news» on social media swayed the election, managed to pen a 6,000 - word salvo on society without singling out Trump.

When Facebook was first confronted with the possibility that fake news and propaganda on its platform may have swayed the election for Donald Trump, just days after the candidate's surprise victory, CEO Mark Zuckerberg strongly denied the idea, calling it «crazy.»

If you don't think that a «majority» of Churches aren't overtly or covertly trying to sway their congregations opinion... thereby swaying the elections, I think you may be just a bit off in your view.

«A strategy... that gets out the really energized and animated base is certainly something that can sway an election when turnout is that low.»

Trump's son - in - law Jared Kushner insisted on Monday in public and behind closed doors with senators he did not collude with Russia to help sway the election last year.

While it's unclear whether Ritz's stance on the standards actually swayed the election, Bennett saw it as a ploy to attract the support of Tea Party Republicans who have been skeptical of the standards.

The idea that a non-governmental actor pursuing a personal political agenda could hack the DNC and potentially sway an election is bad enough, an act of cyberwarfare by a foreign state is arguably much worse.

We can't say that those ads swayed the election to President Trump.

On Monday, UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said she was seeking a warrant to search the consultancy's premises after Channel 4 News secretly recorded the firm's executives boasting about their abilities to sway elections by using tactics such as sending Ukrainian sex workers to an opponent's residence.

Cambridge Analytica officials were recorded saying they have used a web of shell companies to disguise their activities in elections in Mexico, Malaysia and Brazil, among various countries where they have worked to sway election outcomes.

According to The New York Times, he wanted to be more upfront about what countries have done on Facebook to sway elections through buying ads and promoting posts, but that jarred with the business side of the company.

Those profiles were then used for political ad targeting that could have swayed elections around the world.

The unexpected victory of now - President Trump gave birth to a hotly contested theory that Facebook's fake news problem ultimately swayed the elections.

But the fact that Facebook allowed the personal data of so many trusting users to get into the hands of a political data firm whose CEO offered to entrap rival politicians in order to sway an election does not leave me confident that the company would never harm me.

But the stakes grew Wednesday when Facebook revealed that information belonging to as many as 87 million of its users may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, which gathered the data with the intent of swaying elections.

«I take issue with the word to a certain degree, so I make a distinction between a capital E and a small e. I was in the Caribbean in 2004, watching the election returns with a group of friends, and when Fox News, in a state of delirious joy, announced that evangelicals had helped sway the election, I realized this word has really been hijacked.

[Cambridge Analytica CEO appears to talk about using bribes and sex workers to sway elections in video]

A data - mining firm that worked for President Donald Trump's campaign, Cambridge Analytica, scraped data from potentially 50 million Facebook users without their permission — using that information to target digital ads aimed at swaying elections, according to the New York Times.

He said he was «mildly nauseous» at the thought of having swayed the election but also said he would do the same again.

He also threw cold water on the idea that the spread of fake news stories on Facebook could have swayed the election in Trump's favor.

But it took Trump until January 2017 — months after the intelligence community publicly asserted that conclusion — to make clear that he believes that Russian entities tried to sway the election, and his administration has resisted taking some steps to protect the electoral system from future meddling.

U.S. intelligence agencies have previously charged that a separate Russian effort hacked Democratic Party and Clinton campaign emails and leaked them to WikiLeaks in an effort to sway the election.

Sessions began contemplating the option after House Judiciary Committee chairman Robert Goodlatte asked Sessions in July and September to appoint a special counsel to investigate «matters which may be outside the scope» of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, including whether members of President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Moscow to sway the election in his favor.

Sabet doesn't think marijuana ballots will sway the election and he doesn't think that many voters are motivated by legalization.

Zuckerberg and Facebook's No. 2 executive, Sheryl Sandberg, had been quiet since news broke Friday that Cambridge may have used data improperly obtained from roughly 50 million Facebook users to try to sway elections.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says «it was clearly a mistake» to believe the data - mining company Cambridge Analytica deleted Facebook data it had gathered in an attempt to sway elections.

The developments are the latest to show how people try to exploit Facebook in ways that could sway elections, and in the worst cases even undermine democracy.

He described it as «a pretty crazy idea» to think fake news on Facebook could have swayed the election.

The 38 - year - old security expert and his team are leading the company's internal investigation into Russian meddling, according to sources, which includes searching for Facebook posts and political ads tied to Russia or other foreign parties trying to sway the election.

I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was * NOT * the main goal.

The Kremlin - linked ads made news again late last week when Rob Goldman, a Facebook vice president in charge of ads, tweeted that he had read a majority of the Russian ads and could «say very definitively that swaying the election was not the main goal.»

They do not seem to be swaying elections these days, or setting the tone for the arts, or raising the questions that occupy us.

But at the same token, these politicians have no right to use religion as a tool to sway elections.

I think that what you see in election years like what's coming up, and we saw it in 1994, is that you have a very motivated portion of the electorate that turns out and can sway elections.

But there are enough absentees left to be counted that could sway the election.

This is military - funded technology that has been harnessed by a global plutocracy and is being used to sway elections in ways that people can't even see, don't even realise is happening to them,» she says.