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Oculus Creator Sacked By Facebook Due To Political Donation?
Oculus Creator Sacked By Facebook Due To Political Donation? Facebook has been trying very hard over the last year to try and prove that their site is, somewhat, apolitical. Something the social media site has had more than a few difficulties in convincing the sceptics. In a report via CNET,…
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Social Media Appears To Have Managed The US Midterms
Social Media Breathes A Sign Of Relief As US Midterms Conclude Over the last few years, one of the biggest criticisms of social media is the role it has played in elections. Following the 2016 US Presidential Election and the UK Brexit vote many sites including Facebook and Twitter were…
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Mark Zuckerberg Promises Facebook Is Ready For Next Election
Mark Zuckerberg Promises Facebook Is Ready For Next Election It’s been a rough year so far for Facebook. The company has seemingly been fighting off one scandal after another. While the Cambridge Analytica might have jumped to the top of the list, one of the first issues to really cause…
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Facebook Will Vet Any UK Local Election Advertisements in 2019
Facebook Pledges to vet political advertising in 2019 local elections Facebook has recently found itself in some hot water over who it allows advertising on their website. Following the UK Brexit and US elections, there have been regular news stories on how they may have been subject to propaganda based…
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Facebook Fake News Filter Campaign Launched in France
Following a fake news filter campaign similar to the initiative launched in the United States last year, Facebook is cracking down on fake news reporting in France, ahead of the presidential election to be held later in April 2017. A similar initiative by Facebook was also set up in Germany last…
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Germany Could Fine Facebook €500,000 for Every Fake News Post
While Facebook wrings its hands over its fake news problem, Germany could force the social network to take real action to prevent lies and propaganda posing as fact from being spread across the platform. The German government has proposed fining Facebook up to €500,000 (approximately £430,000 or US$525,000) for failing to…
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Russia Gearing Up to Increase Scope of its Hacking
Working with Wikileaks over the last year, Russian hackers had a big hand in undermining the Presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, with many attributing the election of Donald Trump to the efforts of Julian Assange’s whistleblowing organisation. Emboldened by the influence they appear to have exerted over the democratic process…
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Canadian Immigration Website Crashes as Trump Soars in Election
As results for the US presidential election pours in from the various states, it is likely that Donald Trump is going to win overall and with that in mind, many disgruntled democratic voters are looking for an exit strategy. One of those would simply be to leave the country and…
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Details of 87 Million Voters in Mexico Publicly Displayed on Amazon Server
Mexico hasn’t had the best of luck when it comes to their elections and technology, with a hacker recently claiming to have been responsible for rigging their 2012 election and now it appears that 87 million voters had their details publicly displayed on Amazon servers for all to see. The leak…
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Congressman Investigated for Spending Campaign Money on Steam Games
We all love a new game, but it does raise questions when the money you spend on is marked to be used for something else. Congressman Duncan Hunter is being investigated for just the same thing, having spent campaign money on Steam games. According to the San Diego-tribunes report, using…
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Hacker Claims He Controlled The Outcome Of Mexico’s Election
We hear stories and watch movies about hackers, from the news that large companies like TalkTalk have their information accessed to hacking lottery terminals, we’ve heard it all. That was until a hacker who’s currently in jail has come forward saying he was even responsible for rigging the outcome of Mexico’s…
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Pirate Party Leading Opinion Polls in Iceland
Iceland has historically been an anomaly within the Nordic region, leaning politically more to the right than its neighbours Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden – countries that favour social democratic governments – but after being decimated by the global recession in 2008, the island’s citizens started to shift left. In…
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Post UK Election Map Resembles Simpsons Character
Last night was the night of the United Kingdom General Election; to those outside of UK politics, it is sort of like choosing a president in the USA. This election was to be the closest in recent history, but no one knew who was going to win, or maybe Matt…
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22 People Vetted Mitt Romney’s Tweets During 2012 Election
We all know how social media has become the go to form of marketing for many organisations, including politics of course. But we also know how this can go completely wrong, when something goes out that shouldn’t have for instance. There are many examples of this, with a most recent one being…
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