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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gives a thumbs-up after the Senate voted to advance a bill to reopen the government. Congress is on track to end the shutdown on Monday, after the Senate passed a bill that will keep the government open until Feb. 8. A promise from Senate Majority Leader […]
Roel Geeraedts, with Dutch channel RTL Nieuws, followed up on the original question. He referenced a quote by John Adams, America’s first ambassador to Holland, who said he hope only “honest” men would serve in the position. “If you’re truly an honest and wise man, could you please take back the remark about burned politicians […]
A hacker group, likely working on behalf of an unidentified government, has tried to take over the computers of dozens of South Koreans involved in the upcoming Winter Olympics, according to an analysis published this week by the cybersecurity firm McAfee. The purpose of the cyberattack is unclear, but the targeting of multiple computers used […]
A whopping 126 million people using Facebook in the US could’ve been exposed to 80,000 posts created by a Kremlin-linked entity seeking to disrupt the 2016 US presidential election and sow discord in its aftermath, according multiplereports Monday. The number is vastly higher than the 10 million people Facebook initially said were exposed to content […]
A congressional committee investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election has stepped up its probe over the past month, requesting that an agency that combats financial crime turn over confidential banking information on nearly 40 individuals and businesses, including at least nine who are American, BuzzFeed News has learned. Senator Chuck Grassley, the chairman […]
The content recommendation ad network Outbrain, whose clicky content sprawls across the web, is investigating whether Russian ads or other forms of election tampering took place on its service during the 2016 election. Outbrain claims to reach more than 550 million visitors per month via content recommendation modules it places on websites of publishers such […]
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On Thursday morning, Twitter Vice President for Public Policy Colin Crowell met with the House and Senate Intelligence committees about the company’s potential involvement with Russian interference in the 2016 election. Among the information Crowell shared was that the company found around 200 accounts that seem to be linked to the same Russian groups that […]
WASHINGTON – The Russian government confirmed on Wednesday a BuzzFeed News report that Moscow proposed a sweeping normalization of relations with the US to the Trump administration in March. The Russian plan called for the wholesale restoration of diplomatic, military, and intelligence channels that had been severed after Moscow’s military interventions in Ukraine and Syria. […]
International digital rights organizations have condemned the legislation. Amnesty International called the law the “latest blow” in an assault on online freedom. “The ban on VPNs takes this shameful campaign a whole step further,” a spokesperson for the organization said in a statement. (In 2014, the Russian government passed a law that required foreign companies […]
