The Senate Intelligence Committee Wants to Interview Julian Assange
Julian Assange.Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Senate’s Intelligence Committee has asked to speak with Julian Assange as part of its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 elections, WikiLeaks announced in a Wednesday morning tweet. In a letter signed by Sens. Richard Burr…
Ex-Trump Campaign Aides Are Lobbying for Bosnia’s Pro-Russian Separatist Party
Corey Lewandowski with Zeljka Cvijanovic, prime minister of Republika Srpska, in the Trump Tower Hotel on July 25Government of Republika Srpska Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Representatives of a Russian-backed Serbian separatist party in Bosnia, whose leader has been sanctioned by the Treasury Department, have been courting Trump administration officials…
Trump Just Confirmed What the Trump Tower Meeting Was Really About
Brian Cahn/Li Muzi/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump admitted Sunday morning that the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son, Donald, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was designed to get damaging information about Hillary Clinton—contradicting the president’s original claims made last summer that…
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…
“Collusion Is Not a Crime” Becomes Trump’s Official New Line of Defense
Mark Wilson/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump echoed his lawyer’s questionable assertion that “collusion is not a crime” on Tuesday morning, officially ushering in a new line of defense against the special counsel investigation into his campaign and its links to Russian nationals and officials. For good measure, Trump continued…