Tag: Facebook

Facebook ads linked to a Russian effort to disrupt the American political process were displayed as Google's senior vice president and general counsel, Facebook's general counsel, and Twitter's acting general counsel testified during House Intelligence Committee hearings on Capitol Hill this week. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Beltway Confidential

Hey, Congress: National security is your job, not the job of social media companies

Charles Sauer · November 3, 2017 9:09 pm

Trevor Noah charged that Facebook "loves money so much that they are not willing to put a limit on who they take it from." (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Trevor Noah suggests Facebook would let Hitler buy social media ads

Mandy Mayfield · November 3, 2017 12:43 pm

Putin on the Ad Blitz

Ethan Epstein · November 3, 2017 7:10 am

Stricter guidelines were provided to writers, reporters, producers, and editors involved in "hard" news. (AP Photo/David Kohl, File)

ESPN directs staff to avoid ‘overt partisanship’ on social media after Jemele Hill suspension

Naomi Lim · November 2, 2017 9:45 pm

"It's important to remember that not all disagreeable or unpopular speech violates our community standards or audience network policies," Facebook marketing executive Carolyn Everson said. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Facebook declines to remove Breitbart from its advertisement network

Eddie Scarry · November 2, 2017 7:50 pm

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has flagged a Twitter account, retweeted by President Trump and others on his campaign team and in the White House, as being inauthentic and run by Russians. (iStock)

Trump retweeted fake account run by Russians

Diana Stancy Correll · November 2, 2017 2:33 am

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., warned Silicon Valley executives that Congress would step in and do something about the foreign disinformation problem if the tech industry didn't do it itself. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

Things you never want to hear from a member of Congress: Sen. Dianne Feinstein edition

Becket Adams · November 1, 2017 9:21 pm

Facebook told the Senate Intelligence Committee that 150 million Facebook and Instagram users saw Russian-backed election content. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

House Democrats release trove of Russian Facebook ads

Kelly Cohen · November 1, 2017 8:04 pm

Facebook's general counsel Colin Stretch, Twitter's acting general counsel Sean Edgett, and Google's law enforcement and information security director Richard Salgado said they did not know if they made money from the Russian ads. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Tech giants unable to say if they made money around Russian ads

Kelly Cohen · November 1, 2017 5:23 pm

Colin Stretch, vice president and general counsel for Facebook, told senators his company saw attempts by Russian accounts to "inflame some of the post-election demonstrations" seen around the country. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Google, Facebook: Russia tried to divide Americans on Electoral College, immigration, NFL

Todd Shepherd · November 1, 2017 4:57 pm

That brings the new total to "a little less than 150 million [people]," Facebook's vice president and general counsel told the Senate panel. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Facebook: Millions more saw Russian ads through Instagram

Kelly Cohen · November 1, 2017 4:11 pm

Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, pointed out that of the 55 social media ads in Wisconsin, most of them ran prior to the primary in that state, so at that point in time they couldn't have simply been supporting candidate Donald Trump over candidate Hillary Clinton. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

Richard Burr tries to burst the narrative of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election

Todd Shepherd · November 1, 2017 2:27 pm