Congress · 119th Congress
Senate panel releases NIL bill, plans hearing
Cruz, in a news release, said the Senate bill “is a bipartisan plan to restore order.”
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Campaigns · 119th Congress
Trump shrugs off high gas prices, creating political headwinds for GOP
Half of U.S. adults surveyed April 24-28 by The Washington Post and ABC News said they expect gas prices will get worse, compared with 21 percent who thought they would improve.
Congress · 119th Congress
Justifications for war multiply at White House
briefing room if Trump believes most Americans support the decision to go to war, Leavitt replied: "I think he does, and I think the president knows the country is smart enough to [ignore] many of the fake
Congress · 119th Congress
Senate advances Venezuela war powers measure
↵↵"If you look at the people who actually voted, every single one of them have supported the administration's plan," said Vance, who also argued the 1973 War Powers Resolution is "fake and unconstitutional
Congress · 119th Congress
‘Things happen’: Trump defends MBS on Khashoggi murder, slams ABC reporter
Khashoggi kerfuffle↵↵As he and the crown prince held court with the press in the Oval Office, Trump snapped at an ABC News reporter who asked MBS about Khashoggi's murder, calling her network "fake news
Policy · 117th Congress
Biden’s non-gaffe on Putin suggests a foreign policy-steeped president resisting his instincts
‘Moral outrage’ His scripted remarks were among the toughest of his term, repeatedly calling out Putin — a man he recently called “a butcher” — for a series of atrocities and acting under the fake
Congress · 117th Congress
CBO: Fully extended reconciliation bill could cost $3 trillion
“Nobody believes these programs were going to end,” Graham said at a news conference he held to call attention to the CBO report.
Congress · 117th Congress
Whistleblower testifies as lawmakers take aim at Facebook again
renews calls for research on social media’s impact on kids] Haugen, whose information was first published by The Wall Street Journal last month, revealed her identity by appearing Sunday on CBS News
Policy · 117th Congress
Russia outsources disinformation efforts to foreign troll farms
news websites about divisive issues in American politics.
Policy · 116th Congress
US finds more attacks on networks, warns of a ‘grave risk’
The company took down its customer page from its website after news of the attack, but a copy was stored on the Internet Archive.
Policy · 116th Congress
Ratcliffe’s warning on foreign interference with US voters provokes skepticism
The director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, in a hastily assembled news conference late Wednesday with FBI and Homeland Security officials, said that Iran and Russia had managed to steal voter
Policy · 116th Congress
Hired guns of disinformation proliferate online, report finds
To make content look more believable, some companies are creating fake personas of journalists, with false LinkedIn profiles and web histories.
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Social media platforms gird for 78 days of disinformation chaos after Election Day
Unlike most presidential elections, when ballots are tallied and counted in a majority of precincts by midnight on Election Day and news outlets are able to project a winner before you go to bed,
Policy · 116th Congress
Lawmakers, tech companies struggle to curb coronavirus disinformation
Carley says a huge number of bots are operating as a “propaganda arm” for websites that feature fake news, while others are being used to amplify polarizing opinions.
Policy · 116th Congress
Public health experts worry about spread of COVID-19 misinformation
Last month, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned about the potential onslaught of fake information related to the new coronavirus-based illness known as COVID-19
Policy · 115th Congress
Republicans Have Questions for Twitter, and They’re Not About Election Meddling
accounts and false news, and increase transparency of political and issue advertising.
Policy · 115th Congress
Facebook Hires Ex-GOP Senator To Advise On Anti-Conservative Bias
Jon Kyl — now with Capitol Hill lobbying stalwart Covington and Burling — is partnering with the tech giant as lawmakers hammer it for a lack of transparency, not doing enough to combat fake news ahead
Policy · 115th Congress
Blackburn, Himes Spar Over Diamond and Silk, Social Media at Judiciary Hearing
their Republican colleagues for even holding the hearing, indicating it was a needless political distraction from the more serious issue of protecting America’s democratic institutions from the spread of fake
Policy · 115th Congress
Zuckerberg Vows to Step Up Security at Expense of Facebook’s Profits
tell lawmakers this week that the social media company plans to significantly increase spending on security even at the cost of its bottom line to prevent the kinds of data leaks and manipulation by fake
Policy · 115th Congress
Trump Ups Infrastructure Spending Goal, but Offers No Details
“Modernizing our #infrastructure requires real revenue, not fake funding schemes.”