Does Kris Kobach Have White Nationalists On His Campaign Payroll?
Kansas Secretary of State and candidate for the Republican nomination for Kansas Governor Kris Kobach addresses supporters during a campaign stop Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, in Pittsburg, Kan. Charlie Riedel/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported Friday that two GOP political consultants had accused controversial Kansas…
Experts Warn Congress That Facebook and Twitter Can No Longer Set Their Own Rules on Foreign Disinformation
Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC), (R), speaks while flanked by ranking member Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), (C), and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D-CA), during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, on Capitol Hill, on August 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony about foreign influence on social media platforms. Mark Wilson / Getty Images News Looking…
See the Mysterious Fake Facebook Posts that Targeted the Left
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Facebook announced it had uncovered a web of fake accounts and posts targeting Americans. While Facebook says it is unable to firmly attribute the influence campaign to Russian actors, the company has noted that some of the techniques deployed by the accounts are…
Facebook has Uncovered a New Influence Campaign Targeting American Voters
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook has detected an ongoing influence operation targeting Americans with content related to the politically contentious issues of immigration enforcement and white supremacism, first reported Tuesday by the New York Times: “Like the Russian interference campaign in 2016, the recently detected…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Beat the Democratic Machine. Now She’s Helping Other Candidates Do the Same.
Seth Wenig/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the Thursday before New York’s June congressional primary, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old democratic socialist, and Rep. Joe Crowley, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, gathered for their second and final debate at a Jewish community center in Queens. Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning primary…
Thanks to Trump’s Family Separations, Democrats Are in the Hot Seat for Taking Private Prison Cash
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a theater outside Miami last month, as a debate between four Democratic candidates for Florida governor approached the two-hour mark, 18-year-old activist ErrDaisha Floyd took the mic and turned the conversation toward a topic close to her heart: private prisons. The…