Facebook parent Meta fined $24.6M for violating Washington state’s political ad disclosure law – GeekWire
Washington condition Legal professional Standard Bob Ferguson. (GeekWire File Photograph / Dan DeLong) Meta, the father or mother company of Fb, was fined the maximum penalty of $24.6 million on Wednesday for violating Washington state’s marketing…
Ukraine Digital Army Brews Cyberattacks, Intel and Infowar | Political News
By FRANK BAJAK, AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Formed in a fury to counter Russia’s blitzkrieg attack, Ukraine’s hundreds-strong volunteer “hacker” corps is much more than a paramilitary cyberattack force in Europe’s first major war of the…
Arid Viper hackers strike Palestine with political lures and Trojans
The Arid Viper cyberattack group is back with a new campaign targeting Palestinian organizations and activists. The advanced persistent threat (APT) group, believed to be located in Gaza — an area of conflict and hotbed of tension between Israel…
How a Celebrated Legal Scholar Got Swept Up in the Political Spin Machine
On Jan. 7, a “breaking news” alert flashed across my smartphone screen with word that the legal scholar Lani Guinier, the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School, had died at 71. Many Americans will recognize…
Getting tired of political ads? Here’s how to manage your Facebook settings
QUESTION: I’m getting tired of seeing the same political ads. Is there a way to block political ads on Facebook? ANSWER: With the national elections coming up, you can bet that the number of political ads you’ll see on Facebook will increase.…
A roundup of legislative and Capitol news items of interest for Monday, Jan. 3, 2022 | Political News
Courier Des Moines Bureau CONDITION OF THE STATE: Gov. Kim Reynolds will deliver her annual Condition of the State Address at 6 p.m. Jan. 11 from the Iowa House Chamber at the Capitol. Iowa PBS will provide a livestream online, and it can be watched on…
House investigative panel says Trump officials impeded COVID-19 fight for political reasons
1/4 Then-President Donald Trump delivers a briefing on the COVID-19 outbreak at the White House in Washington, D.C., on February 29, 2020. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo Dec. 17 (UPI) — A congressional report released on Friday…
Inflation and political missteps, not bad press, are Biden’s real problems (opinion)
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – The White House apparently thinks that the press is being too hard on President Joe Biden. This is a joke, right? Administration officials have reportedly held secret meetings with news organizations, asking them to lighten up on…
Political misinformation, and a matter of scale
In October of last year, during the runup to the presidential election, the New York Post dropped what looked like a bombshell story. It alleged that a laptop belonging to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, had been found in a repair shop, and that emails taken…
School Forced Teacher to Take Down ‘Political’ Pro-Police Flag, Despite Allowing BLM Symbols
A teacher in Washington state was reportedly forced to remove a pro-police flag from her middle school classroom after administrators deemed it a “political message,” despite allowing messages in support of Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ pride flags to…