Sentences with phrase «with election news»

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«Twitter is the most direct way to engage with the candidates and issues of this election and to participate in the live, public conversation around its key events,» said Adam Sharp, Twitter's head of news, government, and elections, in a statement.

The FBI is investigating whether Donald Trump's associates coordinated with Russian officials in an effort to sway the 2016 presidential election, Director James Comey said Monday in an extraordinary public confirmation of a probe the president has refused to acknowledge, dismissed as fake news and blamed on Democrats.

But with great power comes great responsibility, which Facebook has learned devastatingly quickly as the social network found itself as a battleground of trolls and fake news during (and well after) the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

«The genesis of the «sponsor a subscription» program came directly from readers who approached us with the desire to help support independent journalism and promote news literacy after the U.S. elections,» said Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., publisher of the Times.

We now know that Russian - sponsored trolls used phony accounts and networks of automated «bots» to stoke controversies and seed the news ecosystem with false narratives during the 2016 presidential election.

Cohen said he told the panels that he never engaged with, was paid by, or communicated with anyone representing the Russian government, or anyone else, about hacking or interfering with the U.S. election, hacking the Democratic Party, or about creating fake news stories to assist the Trump campaign or to damage the Clinton campaign.

As a result, either the SPD agrees to enter a coalition with Merkel, she heads a minority government, or the country holds news elections.

What's more, even with the Ailes drama going on, Fox News is enjoying its highest ratings ever in 2016, thanks largely to Donald Trump's antics in the current presidential election.

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.

In the tight three - way race of this year's federal election, the focus has shifted from the reliability of any single research firm to the wisdom of the collective pollster mind, with news outlets arguing over who can aggregate the polls in the most reliable fashion.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly cast doubt on the US intelligence community's assessment that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election in his favor, dismissing the investigation into whether or not his campaign colluded with Russia as «fake news,» a «hoax» and a «witch hunt.»

In late August, Yahoo broke news that foreign hackers had breached the state Board of Elections websites in Illinois and Arizona, which the FBI's cyber division followed up with an alert to election officials across the nation to increase voting system security.

With the election over, the expectation is that cable news networks» days of record ratings are also over, at least until the next big election.

More than 71 million Americans watched election night coverage on broadcast and cable TV this week, with CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC pulling in more than 31 million viewers combined during primetime in a record night for cable nNews, and MSNBC pulling in more than 31 million viewers combined during primetime in a record night for cable newsnews.

Twitter is betting that it can become a place for live video streams of all kinds, including sporting events like soccer and baseball, as well as news events like the Grammy Awards and the election campaign, where it partnered with a number of broadcasters to stream their coverage.

The Russian desk, which was primarily made up of bots and trolls, used fake social - media accounts to flood the internet with pro-Trump agitprop and made - up news throughout the US presidential campaign, especially in the days leading up to the November election.

In the summer of 2005, when Corzine was running in the New Jersey gubernatorial election, news first emerged of his relationship with Katz and the money she had received.

The Times broke the news that in 2014, Cambridge provided Mr. Bolton's «super PAC» with early versions of its Facebook - derived profiles — the technology's first large - scale use in an American election.

I actually tend to agree with Zuckerberg's post-election comment — which he since apologized for — that it was «crazy» to think that «Fake News» influenced the election; my view is that Fake News is a symptom of a far more serious problem: filter bubbles.

News broke over the weekend of March 17 that Cambridge Analytica (CA), a data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump's election campaign, had extracted Facebook data from 50 million user accounts.

The eve of the election was abuzz with news of the release of a video apology from a sixteen - year - old Taiwanese singer, Chou Tzu - yu, for waving the Taiwanese flag on South Korean TV.

Ms. Clifford has not shown up at competitions since news broke in January that she accepted a financial settlement in October 2016 — weeks before the election — agreeing to keep quiet about her alleged intimate relationship with Mr. Trump.

Ari collaborated with Alec Ross on The New York Times bestselling book The Industries of the Future and served as Special Political Correspondent for Vice News during the 2014 midterm elections and as a correspondent for Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper, from 2003 to 2006.

This makes Latin America the perfect victim for people trying to tamper with elections by presenting propaganda as actual news.

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.»

During the 2017 polls, 90 % of Kenyans had heard or seen fake news stories related to the election, with a cross-section of the population using popular apps like WhatsApp and Facebook to spread misinformation.

Fake news was also a key issue in the 2016 vote, with special counsel Robert Mueller indicting 13 Russians in February for using bogus social media accounts to interfere in the election process.

Last week, the media stood by homophobic liar Joy Reid, dismissed allegations of misconduct against Tom Brokaw, gave Jake Tapper an award for fake news, used Michelle Wolf as a hate - avatar, destroyed an admiral with lies, and were caught colluding with the Deep State to overturn Trump's election.

Even before news reports emerged in recent days about the potential misuse of Facebook data, federal regulators and Congress grappled with social media's growing influence on U.S. elections and the ways in which Russian operatives used the platforms to attempt to sow social unrest ahead of the 2016 presidential contest.

The past 24 hours of news in President Donald Trump's various legal imbroglios — the replacement of outgoing lawyer Ty Cobb with Emmet T. Flood, who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment as president, and the admission of Rudy Giuliani to Sean Hannity (subsequently confirmed by Trump on Twitter) that Trump did in fact reimburse Michael Cohen for a $ 130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election — are powerful reminders of something that can't be said often enough: Trump and his White House lie all the time, without apparent compunction.

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.

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.

In a conversation with BuzzFeed News, Giuliani later said that Cohen, Trump's longtime personal lawyer, «had complained to some people» after the 2016 election that he'd not been fully paid by Trump.

Stamos is the most high - profile Facebook executive to leave since the 2016 election, and really the first public indication that Facebook's leadership team might not be on the same page about how to deal with the company's fake news problem.

BuzzFeed reports: «In a conversation with BuzzFeed News, Giuliani later said that Cohen, Trump's longtime personal lawyer, «had complained to some people» after the 2016 election that he'd not been fully paid by Trump.

Via Postmedia News, Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership candidates are calling for another round of Senator - in - Waiting elections to happen concurrent with the next provincial election:

Just when it seems like Conservative candidate Joan Crockatt was losing ground and a tight three - way contest in the Calgary - Centre by - election, right - wing cable channel Sun News swooped in with news that will stir up the anti-Liberal sentiments among Conservative voters in the ridNews swooped in with news that will stir up the anti-Liberal sentiments among Conservative voters in the ridnews that will stir up the anti-Liberal sentiments among Conservative voters in the riding.

What's next: Facebook, already dealing with a backlash over fake news stories and Russian meddling in the election, has another PR crisis on its hands centered on its advertising machine, which brought in $ 39.9 billion in revenue in 2017.

Comey told ABC News's George Stephanopoulos in an interview with 20/20 to be aired Sunday evening that his decision to publicly announce the FBI had reopened its investigation into Clinton's emails just days before the election was likely influenced by the fact that he thought she would win.

He said he told the panels that he never engaged with, was paid by or communicated with anyone representing the Russian government, or anyone else, about hacking or interfering with the U.S. election, hacking the Democratic Party or creating fake news stories to assist the Trump campaign or to damage the Hillary Clinton campaign.

If you can remember as far back as Tuesday, the week's news cycle began with the nation's intelligence chiefs testifying that Russia is continuing to interfere with our election systems here in 2018, and that President Trump hasn't asked them to do anything about it.

From anger over the alleged spreading of «fake news» during US elections to complaints of unfair competition and tax dodging in Europe, there are growing signs that people are losing patience with big - tech disruptors.

Fox News set a record earlier in the month with 24 million people tuning in to the first Republican primary debate of the 2016 election cycle, making it the most - watched cable telecast of all time, excluding sports programming.

Thursday on Fox News Channel's «Fox & Friends,» Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to step in with special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and end it.

Religion News Service: Black pastors move to counter new voter ID laws African - American clergy are joining forces with civil rights groups to push for increased voter registration ahead of the November election, spurred on by new voter laws they say restrict opportunities for minorities to enter the voting booth.

«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.

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In contrast with previous presidential elections, where evangelical Christians were among the most engaged, this year, only 20 percent said they were following news about the campaign very closely.

The news is rife with election year stories about angry evangelicals who are determined to set America back on track.

Judging from the news stories following the election, many of his supporters appear to have had the same reaction — with no sense that the condescension inherent in their candidate's statement helps illuminate the reasons for the election results.