Former Trump campaign director Paul Manafort met with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange three times in Ecuador’s London embassy, the Guardian reported today. One visit occurred around the same month that Russia started hacking the Democratic National Committee.
When Russian president Vladimir Putin seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, his approval ratings were at record lows and the world was watching the Sochi Olympics. When he went to war with Georgia in 2008, the world was consumed by the Beijing Olympics.
When Russia’s infamous troll farm targeted the US 2016 election with disinformation on social media, Twitter could have helped stem the problem on its platform with the help of one of the internet’s most hated tools: CAPTCHAs.
An IRS program using private debt collectors to handle delinquent tax bills is improperly demanding payment from hurricane victims and squeezing some of the poorest Americans—all the while turning a profit far below industry standards.
US government agencies, think tanks, and businesses received emails last week that seemed to come from a State department communications aide, encouraging them to download files from a well-known name: Heather Nauert, the State department official Trump has said is “under very serious consideration” to be come UN ambassador.
As UK prime minister Theresa May lost four ministers over Brexit and Westminster descended into chaos this week, Russian media captured it all in one word: Ministropad.
Yet another controversial rightwing billionaire leader is in political turmoil over a scandal involving his son.
National security experts see Russia’s cyber attack on the 2016 US election as an astounding threat to the country’s safety, but it doesn’t seem to have been a wake-up call for the American electorate.
Newly anointed acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker has said there is “certainly” a legal way for president Trump to fire special counsel Robert Mueller—and that it wouldn’t constitute obstruction of justice.
This is a developing story.
The 2018 midterms have an important lesson for every aspiring corrupt politician out there: commit your scandals after you’re elected to high office.
The Democrats’ projected victory in the House of Representatives would give them control of every committee and subpoena power to investigate whatever they like.
The Kentucky clerk who grabbed international headlines in 2015 when she was jailed for refusing to sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples lost her re-election bid today (Nov. 6), the Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper reports.
Rudy Booker, a New York voter, has visited the same polling station for 15 years. But on the day before the Nov. 6 election, she received a text from the voter-registration organization TurboVote, telling her the voting location had changed. She ignored the text. At the station, Booker encountered dozens of angry people who’d been sent a similar message, and were now in the wrong place.
Those in the know have long been concerned by US lawmakers’ all-around ignorance when it comes to tech, but the issue soared mortifyingly into the public eye when Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg testified to Congress in April.
Far-right US congressman Steve King may have been losing corporate donors and support from fellow Republicans over his history of racist comments and backing of white supremacists, but at least he has two Facebook pages.
The gunman accused of killing 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue over the weekend appears to have passed through the final stage of a funnel of online extremism.
Google is seeing “surprisingly little” in terms of attempts to attack US election infrastructure ahead of the November midterms, says Shane Huntley, director of the company’s Threat Analysis Group.
President Donald Trump complained today that Twitter had removed his Twitter followers and had “stifled growth” of his followers on the platform.
This developing story will be updated.
Donald Trump has consistently claimed that a “deep state” of liberal civil servants are criminally leaking against him. However, the first official to be arrested for alleged leaks under his presidency appears to be a Trump supporter, the Wall Street Journal reports.
After 18 years in power, Vladimir Putin is finally meeting his political match: babushkas.
As the US midterms approach, disinformation on social media is ramping up on all sides.
The oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin is best known for three things: the moniker “Putin’s chef;” funding Russia’s notorious Internet Research Agency troll farm; and allegedly sending shadowy mercenaries to Ukraine and Syria. In Feb. 2018, he was indicted by US authorities for attempting to sway the US 2016 presidential election.
