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Technology

Facebook identifies ongoing political influence campaign

Facebook said it had removed 32 pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram, part of an effort to combat foreign meddling in U.S. elections

4 min read1 Aug 2018
News

Trump administration declines to apply new Russia sanctions, for now

Trump administration declines to apply new Russia sanctions to punish Moscow's alleged meddling in the 2016 US election, insisting the measure was already hitting Russian companies

2 min read30 Jan 2018
Opinion

What’s next, statutory warnings on social media?

Statutory warnings may even show up on social media sites as targeted advertisementsbut the choice is still yours

5 min read19 Dec 2017
News

Russia prosecutor Robert Mueller just getting started, say analysts

Robert Mueller's explosive charges against three former Donald Trump aides are merely the starting steps of an aggressive probe, say analysts

3 min read1 Nov 2017
News

White House is said to review Donald Trump aides’ use of private email

White House starts an internal review of its staff's use of private email for govt business, as Congress scrutinizes an issue that echoes one of Trump's key attacks on Hillary Clinton in last year's election

3 min read29 Sep 2017
Politics

Donald Trump’s plan for cybersecurity force with Russia gets panned

US President Donald Trump's tweet about his discussion with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on creating a cybersecurity unit draws criticism from fellow Republicans as well as Democrats

5 min read10 Jul 2017
News

Donald Trump’s son, son-in-law met with Kremlin-linked lawyer: Report

US President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with a Russian lawyer during Trump's presidential campaign , a media report says

2 min read9 Jul 2017
News

Fired FBI chief James Comey to testify 8 June as Russia probes heat up

Comey will testify 8 June before the Senate panel about his dismissal by Trump as the probe into whether the president had improper contact with Russia are shifting toward a dramatic, public phase

5 min read2 Jun 2017
News

Vladimir Putin-linked think tank drew up plan to sway 2016 US election: reports

US officials said Vladimir Putin-linked think tank developed a plan to swing the 2016 US presidential election and undermine voters' faith in the American electoral system

4 min read20 Apr 2017
News

Donald Trump says US should ‘move on’ rather than sanction Russia

Donald Trump said computers have complicated lives very greatly to a stage where nobody knows exactly what is going on

1 min read29 Dec 2016
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