An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organizations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations.
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Facebook plans to clarify when pro-Bloomberg posts come from staffers
Former New York City mayor and presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is spending an unprecedented amount of money on his ...
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'Cool candidate' Mike Bloomberg begs for your vote with Instagram memes
Mike Bloomberg wants internet-savvy voters to know there's a "cool" guy in the running — and what better way to appeal ...
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Why Jeff Bezos might run for president to spite Elon Musk and Donald Trump
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is suing Donald Trump over the Pentagon's decision to award a lucrative military artificial intelligence ...
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Twitter now lets you report voter suppression -- here's how
Twitter rolled out a new reporting option that allows users to report political misinformation. Here's how you can do that ...
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You're probably more susceptible to misinformation than you think
Online misinformation works, or so it would seem. One of the more interesting statistics from the 2019 UK general election ...
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Study: 98% of kids in the UK can't tell fake news from the truth
The 2019 general election is already being remembered as the one where misinformation went mainstream. It was, of course, ...
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Russian military hackers go after the Ukrainian quid that Trump tried to pro quo
The 2020 US Presidential campaign has officially kicked off in Russia. Russian leader Vladmir Putin's military hackers recently ...
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Google finally takes a stance on political ads with microtargeting restrictions
Google has announced a crack down on political ads that limits advertisers from targeting ads based on voters' political ...
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Facebook employees object to the company’s policy of allowing lies in political ads
Facebook employees issued an open letter urging Mark Zuckerberg to rethink the company's strategy for regulating paid political ...
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Facebook will clearly label fake news to prevent 2020 ‘election interference'
Facebook updated its policies on the spread of misinformation and released a bunch of new tools to better “protect the ...
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California makes deepfakes illegal to curb revenge porn and doctored political videos
To combat deepfakes, California passed two bills making it illegal to post any manipulated videos of political figures with ...
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Zuck says he’s ready for a fight if Elizabeth Warren is elected
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting his employees ready for what could turn out to be the biggest threat his company's ...
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Facebook election interference study delayed over privacy concerns
Facebook's plans to share open up its data vault for researchers to analyze the platform's influence on elections has run ...
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WhatsApp played a big role in the Nigerian election — not all of it was bad
There is growing concern about the potential for the message and media sharing platform WhatsApp to undermine democracy in ...
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Senate Intelligence Committee: Russia targeted all 50 US states ahead of 2016 elections
In a heavily redacted report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee today says Russians targeted election systems ...
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State-sponsored cybercriminals attacked 10,000 Microsoft customers in 2018
Microsoft said on Wednesday that it has notified almost 10,000 customers in the past year that they've been the target of ...
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Fake Facebook accounts are influencing African elections
Facebook has issued a statement on how it removed fake accounts originating from Israel that ran Facebook Pages, Groups ...
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South African voters fear mobile political campaigns will steal their personal info
Mobile technology will arguably go down in history as the most successful innovation of our lifetime. Mobile devices, especially ...
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10 things we learned from the Democratic candidates' Instagrams
With the US presidential election only 18 months away, we took to Instagram to analyze the candidates for the Democratic ...
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WhatsApp says its fake news tip line is just for research
Earlier this week, WhatsApp announced that it's launching a tip line in India to verify messages during the election. But ...
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WhatsApp launches a tip line in India to battle fake news ahead of national elections
WhatsApp has launched a tip line in India to which you can send forwards, rumors, and suspicious-sounding messages and have ...
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Facebook is cracking down on fake accounts before India's election
The first phase of the Indian Assembly’s election kicks off on April 21, but the increase in propaganda has already begun. ...
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How Mark Zuckerberg wants governments to regulate content on online platforms
It looks like Mark Zuckerberg’s now into blogging. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, the Facebook CEO asked governments ...
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Google helps South Africa combat fake news ahead of its general election
Can South Africa really hold a general election on the 8th of May in a way that it really represents the views of its people? ...
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How Alphabet's Jigsaw think tank is fighting radicalization online
Jigsaw — a unit within Alphabet — is one of the most important projects working towards countering cyber attacks, censorship, ...
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Here's why the DRC cut off their internet in the run-up to the elections
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) cut off internet access in the run-up to elections during December ...
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Elections, fake news, and spam: WhatsApp has a tough year ahead in India next year
In India, most people won't ask you for a business card to get your contact info. Instead, they'll ask you if you use WhatsApp. ...
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'They clearly don't care': Fact-checkers on the state of misinformation at Facebook
After a deluge of fake news began to overwhelm Facebook, it got proactive. The social media platform tapped bi-partisan organizations, ...
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Experts warn DeepFakes could influence 2020 US election
We're only a few months away from the November US midterm elections and DeepFakes is poised to pose a major threat in this ...
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How Cambridge Analytica leveraged fashion to sway undecided voters
Few could have guessed that the type of jeans they bought, or the music they listen to while buying them, would serve as ...
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Facebook can simply say ‘no’ to EU’s proposed audit
EU Parliament has called for an audit on Facebook as it believes the company's handling of data has breached EU law -- but ...
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6 reasons why municipalities are getting hammered by cyberattacks
More and more municipalities are becoming victims of hacks. For example in the US, the first half of 2018 has seen many major ...
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Twitter releases 10M Iranian and Russian propaganda tweets ahead of US Midterms
Twitter recently released millions of tweets from thousands of accounts associated with election interference and political ...
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Mark Zuckerberg admits Facebook needs help protecting the elections
We're now less than two months out from the US midterm elections, and the pre-emptive assurances about security from social ...
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EU suggests law to stop Cambridge Analytica-style election meddling
The European Commission is currently working on a proposal which will impose fines on political parties using Cambridge Analytica-style ...
