“Congress’s New Bill Can’t Eliminate Russian Influence Online”
Wired reports.
See my earlier Politico piece, Why Banning Russian Facebook Ads Might Be Impossible.
Category Archives: campaigns
“Why the Fact-Checking at Facebook Needs to Be Checked”
Brendan Nyhan for NYT’s The UpShot:
Since the 2016 presidential campaign, Facebook has taken a number of actions to prevent the continued distribution of false news articles on its platform, most notably by labeling articles rated as false or misleading… Continue reading
Bloomberg View: Honest Ads Act “Whole Inadequate” but “Entirely Necessary”
NAACP, with New President, to Switch to 501c4 to Become More Political
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”
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”
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
“Senators Demand Online Ad Disclosures as Tech Lobby Mobilizes”
NYT:
Senator John McCain and two Democratic senators moved on Thursday to force Facebook, Google and other internet companies to disclose who is purchasing online political advertising, after revelations that Russian-linked operatives bought deceptive ads in the run-up to the… Continue reading
“How Gridlock, Social Media Giants and the Clintons Made the Internet Ripe for Russian Meddling”
Daily Beast:
The co-authors of McCain-Feingold’s House companion bill, Reps. Christopher Shays (R-CT) and Marty Meehan (D-MA), were not pleased. They sued the FEC in part due to that omission, and successfully invalidated 15 FEC regulations. In response, the commission… Continue reading
“Trump Campaign Staffers Pushed Russian Propaganda Days Before the Election”
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
“Roy Moore’s Senate campaign blames Democrats for fake Twitter followers”
Weigel:
Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for Senate in Alabama, gained then lost thousands of apparently fake Twitter followers in the space of a few hours — a situation that his campaign blamed on Democrats.
“We highly doubt that reporters… Continue reading
“Efforts to pry loose Trump tax returns hit a wall”
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
“Trump campaign legal bills topped $1 million last quarter”
WaPo:
President Trump’s reelection committee spent more than $1 million on legal bills last quarter as investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election pressed on through the summer, according to a disclosure filed Sunday with the Federal Election Commission.… Continue reading
“Donald Trump campaign ramps up 2020 re-election fundraising”
CPI:
New financial disclosures President Donald Trump’s re-election committee filed Sunday with the Federal Election Commission tell a story of two Trump campaigns.
On one end, Trump, both by choice and circumstance, remains tethered to his 2016 presidential election effort.… Continue reading
“Black Lawmakers Hold a Particular Grievance With Facebook: Racial Exploitation”
NYT:
For more than an hour, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s high-profile chief operating officer, sheepishly pledged to “do better” — over and over — as stern-faced members of the Congressional Black Caucus grilled her on Thursday about Russian ads aimed… Continue reading