Sentences with phrase «swayed the election for»

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.»

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A federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals and a so - called «troll farm» in St. Petersburg on Friday for a broad campaign to sway the 2016 election in Trump's favor.

The company has been lambasted by public officials and others for spreading false stories, and for allowing Russian - linked groups to use its platform to potentially sway voters during the 2016 election.

But it has been a tough year for Facebook in the U.S., and most of the company has been grappling with the fact that Facebook's service was used by Russian actors to try and sway the 2016 presidential election.

American evangelicalism has become this huge voting bloc — for right or wrong — with the potential of swaying entire elections.

He's also an outspoken advocate of immigration reform and gatekeeper of a union of largely Latino membership that helps sway local elections and endorsed Ms. Clinton for president.

Tales from Number 10 have circulated that the pair held too much sway over the PM insisting she stick to the «strong and stable» script during the election campaign and even making her wear a pair of much criticised # 1000 leather trousers for an interview last year.

The risk, for them, is that protests meant to shame Trump will consume energy that could be used to beat him by winning elections and swaying votes in Congress.

The endorsement from Gillibrand comes the same day as Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to stump for Democrats running in key Senate races on Long Island — a major battleground that could sway control of the narrowly divided chamber this election cycle.

During the 2004 presidential elections Tradesports users allegedly tried to sway the prediction market by selling shares for an artificially low price.

I have hopes for Tillerson in that direction, and he has sufficient gravitas to sway Trump who doesn't seem to hold any of his election promises very tightly.

Since the two leading candidates for president have largely defined the political discourse this election cycle, Silva's environmental agenda has struggled to sway the dialouge.

But as of early afternoon Tuesday, neither Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg nor his high - profile chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, had made public comments about the mushrooming crisis, which now involves a reported Federal Trade Commission probe, demands by Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill for testimony by Zuckerberg, and the release of an undercover video by a British television station that appears to show the head of the data analytics firm talking about bribes and traps to sway elections.

The interest in getting more information on how these companies left the doors open for voter manipulation across both sides of the aisle gets to the heart of why Russian election meddling is so troubling: If powerful foreign adversaries are working to sway American voters, it doesn't matter what team you're on.

Their call represents the first official request from a congressional oversight committee for Zuckerberg's appearance amid demands by lawmakers that Facebook explain reports that Cambridge Analytica harvested the data of more than 50 million Facebook users in order to sway elections.

If Facebook can use this same set of strategies as well as develop new ones, it may be able to significantly reduce the potential for misuse of its platform to sway elections.

And on Monday, after the U.K.'s Channel 4 broadcast covert footage of Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix boasting about how the company could sway elections, the ICO stepped up its probe by applying for a warrant to search the firm's offices.

Facebook is taking baby steps for now to address the latest privacy scandal after news broke Friday, March 16, 2018, that Cambridge Analytica may have used data improperly obtained from roughly 50 million Facebook users to try to sway elections.

On Wednesday, the generally reclusive Zuckerberg sat for an interview on CNN and conducted several more with other outlets, addressing reports that Cambridge Analytica purloined the data of more than 50 million Facebook users in order to sway elections.

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