Facebook said it can not determine whether or how the data in question could have been used in conjunction
with election ad campaigns.
Not exact matches
Among the others: Facebook is strengthening its process for reviewing
ads, increasing the size of its
election - integrity and security teams, and partnering
with election commissions around the world.
The honeymoon between Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. has been fading quickly over the past year and a half,
with lawmakers questioning to what extent Facebook had influenced the outcome of the presidential
election by allowing fake news and Russian - backed political
ads onto its platform.
An
ad created by the pro-Trump Great America Alliance — a nonprofit «issues» group that isn't required to disclose its donors — casts Comey as a «showboat» who was «consumed
with election meddling» instead of focusing on combating terrorism.
Instead, the
ads seemed designed to sow discord and increase partisanship, perhaps revving up the weary - of - the - system sentiments that may have helped Trump
with the
election.
If we consider how increasingly weaponized
ad targeting has become, especially since this past summer when Google and Facebook consolidated our browsing histories into their user IDs, and we think about how anybody in the world could target anyone else in the United States
with surgical precision by their susceptibilities and propensities, maybe this
election was similar to a 9/11 moment, but non-violent and invisible, where we realize that our commercial infrastructure was used against us, and we don't realize it until after the catastrophe?
Certainly this is a conversation where everyone has more to lose; those scapegoating Facebook probably don't want to think about their own responsibility, such that it may be, for an
election result they disagree
with, and the stakes are even higher for Facebook: giving people what they want to see is far more important to the company's business model than $ 100,000 in illegal
ads, unintended consequences or not.
But given the success the Liberals had this time out
with ads clearly designed to elicit fear and loathing, it is safe to predict that we'll see more of the same in future
elections, perhaps even from the NDP, which managed in this
election to avoid their opponents» tone of personal rage and insult pretty successfully.
At the same time, in an update on parallel measures it's taking to fight
election interference, Facebook says it will launch a public archive in the summer showing «all
ads that ran
with a political label».
The NDP is not taking a banana to a knife fight — this coming
election will see the Liberals
with massiive millions while the NDP — which gets almost 80 % of its funding from individuals like myself — will also face a colourful party that will likely get full page
ads from the Liberals supporting said colourful party as it did in the last provincial
election!
Facebook is in trouble — again — for Russian
ads about the
election; figuring out how to deal
with them requires first understanding that Facebook, like Google, is a Super-Aggregator.
Meanwhile, in Mexico: In Facebook news unrelated to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company took out full - page
ads in Mexico
with tips to help people recognize fake news ahead of the country's presidential
election in July, Bloomberg reports.
March 14: The Federal
Election Commission said it would start writing new disclosure rules for online ads in response to revelations Russian interests bought content on Facebook and other platforms in an attempt to meddle with the 2016 e
Election Commission said it would start writing new disclosure rules for online
ads in response to revelations Russian interests bought content on Facebook and other platforms in an attempt to meddle
with the 2016
electionelection.
Stamos, who joined the social giant almost three years ago after a very public stint in a similar role at Yahoo, ran the team inside Facebook tasked
with hunting down
ads related to the Kremlin's efforts to sow unrest in the U.S. ahead of the presidential
election.
New changes by Facebook aim to make it tougher for buyers of political
ads and issue
ads to interfere
with elections.
«Most of the paid
ads the Internet Research Agency ran on Facebook prior to the 2016
election didn't mention Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump — but they did mention divisive political issues like guns, LGBT rights, immigration, and racial issues,» said Sen. Mark Warner, D - Va., who along
with Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D - Minn., and John McCain, R - Ariz., have sponsored the bill.
What we are stuck
with is a Super PAC apparatus that produces worthless
election year
ads featuring old, white, affluent people complaining that Obama is taxing and regulating them too much.
Even
with all the political
ads and talk about
elections, it may seem like it doesn't really matter if you personally vote.
Karen Jagoda has what looks to be another top - notch Digital Politics Show today, broadcast live at 3 PM Eastern:
With one month to go until
Election Day, the topic today is how online
ads and mobile apps are being used in the ground game and how campaign narratives are being shaped by dirty...
This discussion will look at how candidates and interest groups in in the U.S. are using Facebook advertising, Twitter, Google
Ads, mobile phones, location - based services and older technologies like email and blogs to raise money, mobilize support and get voters to the polls in an important
election year,
with an emphasis on practical results and the implications for future political campaigns around the world.
They were buying
ads efficiently and in bulk and knocking on doors across the country, and they didn't lack for bodies: DC cleared out in the two or three weeks before the
election,
with many of the experienced field staff I know heading out to the states for the final push.
«Consequently the commission notes the request of the security agencies and considering the security implications of proceeding
with the
election the safety of elgable voters, electoral officials, including
ad - hoc staff and other stakeholders has decided to reschedule the Edo governorship
elections to Wednesday 28 September 2016.
The March 20 special
election is right around the corner, and Democratic Common Council Member Michael «Mickey» Kearns is kicking his campaign for the 145th Assembly District up a notch
with an
ad that slams his opponent as nothing but a «puppet» of Speaker Sheldon Silver.
Republican Senate candidate Bob Turner is out
with his first television
ad this morning, calling attention to his upset victory over David Weprin in the special
election to replace disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner.
One Moore - aligned group, Restore Our Godly Heritage PAC, is airing commercials on nearly 60 stations around the state accusing Jones of «trying to steal the
election with vile, racist
ads on black radio.»
As Maggie Haberman reports, de Blasio has had discussions in recent weeks
with Google on the heels of his successful effort to get Goldman Sachs to agree not to spend on political
ads in this
election cycle — even though a recent US Supreme Court decision allows corporations to drop unlimited amounts of cash to try to elect of defeat candidates running for federal office.
Don't wait until
Election Day to seek the help of your fans (Facebook ads can target them exclusively with zero waste): this week hit your fans with direct requests: sign up to make phone calls, knock on doors, and volunteer on elect
Election Day to seek the help of your fans (Facebook
ads can target them exclusively
with zero waste): this week hit your fans
with direct requests: sign up to make phone calls, knock on doors, and volunteer on
electionelection day.
«Despite that we have over 9,000 Youth Corps members in Ekiti State and it has been the general practice to engage the NYSC members in
elections across the country, the APC in collusion
with INEC has asked that students of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE) be recruited as INEC
ad - hoc staff for the
election, instead of youth corps members.»
The Republican Candidate for Buffalo Mayor is filing a formal complaint
with the State Board of
Elections over a campaign
ad run by Democratic Incumbent Byron Brown.
Election season has come to the tree - shaded (and recently snow - shrouded) streets of the District of Columbia, and
with it a flurry of Facebook
Ads.
And Mayor Byron W. Brown, running for re-
election with only nominal competition in the general
election, was suddenly back on television, spending a total of $ 106,500 in little more than two weeks on
ads, campaign literature and a get - out - the - vote effort for himself and his fellow Democrats running for countywide office.
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Coakley has only been up
with one television
ad so far in the general
election, while Brown has aired three.
With the
elections season drawing closer by the day, the political
ads just don't stop coming.
This report found that Democratic and Republican groups spent a total of $ 46.84 million on TV
ads in 15 states
with gubernatorial
elections.
With election day upon us, the same data helps target emails,
ads and last - minute individual contacts to maximize the chances of getting Democratic supporters to the polls.
«
With weeks and weeks... When you have $ 25 million to throw at an
election and run six weeks of constant negative
ads, most of which were lies and fabrications, we'll take a little shot back once in a while.»
ALBANY, N.Y. —
With social media's influence on the 2016 presidential
election still under review, a provision included in New York's state budget will require new disclosure for digital
ads seen on sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Curran,
with more of an eye on the general
election, did not run any primary television
ads.
With election season here, escaping the volley of political
ads that are the hallmark of political campaigns will only get harder.
The firm worked on Facebook
ads with President Donald Trump's campaign in 2016, but the data allegedly held by Cambridge Analytica was not used in the 2016 Trump presidential
election campaign, the company claims.
The London - based company worked on Facebook
ads with President Donald Trump during his
election campaign in 2016, where it provided details on American voters.
The state party is stepping in to assist Astorino in the final weeks of the campaign
with this
ad, which will run through
Election Day.
But Tuesday's
elections saw a large number of down ballot candidates buying Google mobile
ads with the goal of capturing the attention of people waiting on line at the polling stations.
Fogarty beat Carcieri onto the television airwaves
with an
ad that seeks to make the
election a referendum on corruption.
(CNN)- A conservative group is kicking off the midterm
election year
with a multimillion - dollar
ad campaign that targets three Democratic Senators facing tough re-
election battles in November.
This
election season seems to feature more than the usual amount of negative
ads,
with television spots painting opponents in a dark light.
With two weeks to go until a crucial state Senate special
election in Nassau County, Democrat Todd Kaminsky's campaign's latest
ad hits Chris McGrath over the fees his law firm received for its work on the early 2000s settlement agreement between states and tobacco companies.
The back and forth between councilmembers is an example of the negative attacks in TV
ads and mailings that have permeated this race, but it's the same
with almost every important
election in Yonkers and Westchester over the past few years.
But
with a month to go before the
elections, state Senate Democrats, who if they win will make Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman leader of the chamber, said they are set to use Trump's latest controversy against every Republican candidate in a series of mailings and television
ads.