Category Archives: campaigns

“Russia’s Favored Outlet Is an Online News Giant. YouTube Helped.”

October 24, 2017, 1:04 pmcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: When the state-backed Russian news channel RT became the first news organization to surpass one billion views on YouTube in 2013, it marked the achievement with a retrospective of its most popular videos and a special guest — one… Continue reading

Friday’s First Amendment Law Review Symposium on Fake News to Be Webcast

October 23, 2017, 8:03 amcampaigns, chicanery, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Great event coming up, but you’ve got to sign up by Wed. to watch. Details. I’ll be presenting my paper, Cheap Speech and What It Has Done (to American Democracy).

“Congress’s New Bill Can’t Eliminate Russian Influence Online”

October 23, 2017, 7:25 amcampaign finance, campaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Wired reports. See my earlier Politico piece, Why Banning Russian Facebook Ads Might Be Impossible.

Bloomberg View: Honest Ads Act “Whole Inadequate” but “Entirely Necessary”

October 23, 2017, 7:14 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Editorial.

NAACP, with New President, to Switch to 501c4 to Become More Political

October 22, 2017, 11:41 amcampaigns, tax law and election lawRick Hasen

AP: Johnson has been the face of the NAACP since then as the organization has refocused its work on supporting its local chapters and tried to retool in the face of rising organizations like Black Lives Matter. Currently as a… Continue reading

“Financial disclosure shows unusual campaign setup for Pence chief of staff”

October 20, 2017, 5:01 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Politico: Nick Ayers, a senior adviser to Pence during the presidential race and now his chief of staff, joined the 2016 team as a volunteer and never took a dime in salary from the Trump-Pence campaign even as he crisscrossed… Continue reading

“Facebook and Google Helped Anti-Refugee Campaign in Swing States”

October 20, 2017, 10:00 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Bloomberg: In the final weeks of the 2016 election campaign, voters in swing states including Nevada and North Carolina saw ads appear in their Facebook feeds and on Google websites touting a pair of controversial faux-tourism videos, showing France and… Continue reading

“Trump Campaign Staffers Pushed Russian Propaganda Days Before the Election”

October 18, 2017, 7:22 pmcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Daily Beast: Some of the Trump campaign’s most prominent names and supporters, including Trump’s campaign manager, digital director and son, pushed tweets from professional trolls paid by the Russian government in the heat of the 2016 election campaign. The Twitter… Continue reading

“Efforts to pry loose Trump tax returns hit a wall”

October 16, 2017, 11:48 amballot access, campaignsRick Hasen

Politico: Efforts to pry loose President Donald Trump’s tax returns at the state level have hit a wall, stalling in statehouses across the country including in California, a hotbed of anti-Trump resistance. Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed legislation late Sunday… Continue reading