“Inside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate the NRA and Help Elect Trump”
Tom Dickinson deep dive in Rolling Stone.
Category Archives: campaigns
(How) Will Facebook Self-Regulate “Issue Ads” Intended to Affect U.S. Elections? The Details Matter a Lot
Via the NY Times comes news that Facebook will not only support passage of the Honest Ads Act (currently pending in committee where it may stay), but will also self-regulate “issue ads.” The self-regulation is important, because it may be… Continue reading
Final Version of My “Cheap Speech” Paper Now Posted on SSRN
I have posted on SSRN the final version of my paper, Cheap Speech and What It Has Done (to American Democracy), 16 First Amendment Law Review 200 (2018).
Here is the abstract:
In a remarkably prescient article in a 1995… Continue reading
“Facebook pledges to tighten election security ahead of midterms”
USA Today:
Though Facebook is pledging to bring “unprecedented” transparency over political messaging, executives refused to say if Facebook supports proposed federal legislation to regulate political ads on the social network and disclose the identities of those who buy them.… Continue reading
“NRA Says It Receives Foreign Funds, But None Goes To Election Work”
NPR:
The National Rifle Association acknowledged that it accepts foreign donations but says it does not use them for election work — even as federal investigators look into the role the NRA might have played in Russia’s attack on the… Continue reading
“California Lawmakers Want Twitter Bots Branded With Disclaimers”
Motherboard:
While Congress has done essentially nothing, many states—including Maryland, New York, and Washington—are drafting regulations that would attempt to reign in bots. In California, two bills—AB 1950 and SB 1001—would force Silicon Valley giants to identify… Continue reading
“Small Donors in Congressional Elections”
Tyler Culberson, Michael McDonald, and Suzanne Robbins have written this article for American Politics Research. Here is the abstract:
Candidates raise substantial sums of money to compete in federal elections. Scholars and election observers are concerned by potential corruption related… Continue reading
“U.S. companies are pressuring their workers on how to lobby and vote”
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez for The Monkey Cage:
.S. businesses are cultivating a new political resource: their own workers. When Republicans wrote their tax bill late last year, many companies pushed their employees to support specific policy provisions and to… Continue reading
DNC Sells “I Will Vote” Shirt to Wear to the Polls: Would It Violate Minnesota’s Ordinance in Mansky Case Pending Before SCOTUS?
“Facebook’s Role in Data Misuse Sets Off a Storm on Two Continents”
NYT:
American and British lawmakers demanded on Sunday that Facebook explain how a political data firm with links to President Trump’s 2016 campaign was able to harvest private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without the social network’s… Continue reading
Today’s Must-Read: “How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions”
NYT:
As the upstart voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica prepared to wade into the 2014 American midterm elections, it had a problem.
The firm had secured a $15 million investment from Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor, and wooed his… Continue reading
“NRA lawyer said to have had concerns about group’s ties to Russia”
McClatchy:
Congressional investigators are examining information that a longtime attorney for the National Rifle Association had concerns about the group’s ties to Russia and its possible involvement in channeling Russian funds into the 2016 elections to help Donald Trump, two… Continue reading
“Trump Administration Sanctions Russians for Election Meddling and Cyberattacks”
NYT:
President Trump’s administration imposed sanctions on a series of Russian organizations and individuals on Thursday in retaliation for interference in the 2016 presidential elections and other “malicious” cyberattacks. It was the most significant action taken against Moscow since Mr.… Continue reading