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Google urges FEC to adopt more specific rules for political ads
Google, Facebook and Twitter have all found evidence of Russian influence for last year's US presidential election. Go…
Virginia
Liberal goats are destroying America
When goats aren't doing yoga and posing for Instagram , they're trying to influence OUR elections. On Tuesday, t…
Zeynep Tufekci
Zeynep Tufekci tried to warn us about Facebook and politics back in 2012
Zeynep Tufekci tried to tell us. She tried to tell us in November 2012, just after Barack Obama beat out Mitt Romney for …
Twitter
Major news outlets shared Russian propaganda from Twitter
Now that it's clearer just how many Twitter accounts have been linked to the Russian government (2,752 at last count),…
security
US could charge six Russian officials over DNC email hacking
Is Russia's hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails a "hoax," as Donald Trump maintains? T…
senate hearings
Facebook Ran Some Russia-Funded Ads on Gizmodo Media Content. Here's What We Know About It
This week, Facebook was grilled before three Congressional committees over Russian propaganda that it allowed to reach app…
Twitter
Twitter offered Russian media outlet 15 percent of its election ads
Twitter may have just given the boot to ads from Russia-backed media outlets, but it wasn't quite so discerning in 201…
sex
Russian Instagram posts reached 20 million users in the US
Earlier this week, we learned that over half of Facebook's US audience, 126 million Americans, were exposed to Russia&…
votingequipment
Senators push legislation to protect election systems from hacks
Senators Susan Collins and Martin Heinrich have put forward a bill that would protect America's voting infrastructure …
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